Earth Views - Te Waka o Aoraki, "The Canoe of...

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Places and sights from around the Earth, catalogued by location, including views and scenery natural and artificial, rural and urban, ugly and beautiful.

This gives a feel of what particular parts of the world are like.

See also Aloha Earth to zoom in on on a map of the Earth to locate exhibits, and our travel section.

• new zealand = .nz, NZ, Aotearoa, "The land of the long white cloud", Neuseeland, Nouvelle-Zélande, Nueva Zelanda, Nueva Zelandia, Nova Zelândia, Nuova Zelanda = Official NZ government site. Adjective sometimes "Kiwi" or "antipodean".
• new zealand south island = Te Waka o Aoraki, "The Canoe of Aoraki" = The South Island is more temperate than the North Island, with gently rolling hills and pastures in the east, and mountains, glaciers and fjords in the west.

New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon bungy jumper over water MB.jpg ... New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon near Queenstown bungy ropes hanging from bridge rotated 2 MB.jpg

new zealand south island

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	New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon bungy jumper over water MB.jpg (Earth Views) new zealand = .nz, NZ, Aotearoa, "The land of the long white cloud", Neuseeland, Nouvelle-Zélande, Nueva Zelanda, Nueva Zelandia, Nova Zelândia, Nuova Zelanda new zealand south island = Te Waka o Aoraki, "The Canoe of Aoraki"
	New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon near Queenstown bungy ropes hanging from bridge 1 MB.jpg (Earth Views) " taken 20001212. (I don't know if "bungee" or "bungy" is the preferred spelling; Google lists about 366,000 vs 66,000 pages containing the two words as of 20030505.)
	New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon near Queenstown bungy ropes hanging from bridge green vegetation water below rotated MB.jpg (Earth Views) " taken 20001212
	New Zealand South Island Pipeline Bridge and Bungy Skippers Canyon near Queenstown bungy ropes hanging from bridge rotated 2 MB.jpg (Earth Views) " "