French: Te Wahipounamu – zone sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Zélande
The Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand is a World Heritage site in New Zealand and defined by the UNESCO in 1990 and definitely a recommended natural sightseeing location.
It is on position 652 (394, 652) in our monthly survey..

"The landscape in this park, situated in south-west New Zealand, has been shaped by successive glaciations into fjords, rocky coasts, towering cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of the park is covered with southern beech and podocarps, some of which are over 800 years old. The kea, the only alpine parrot in the world, lives in the park, as does the rare and endangered takahe, a large flightless bird."
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(vii)(viii)(ix)(x)

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