Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand World Heritage Site

Official name

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand | UNESCO

Country

New Zealand | Map

Continent

Australia

Location

Southwest of South Island
-45.3600° Lat, 167.3196° Lon | Map

Code

551

Time Zone

Pacific/Auckland (NZST, +1200)

Current Time

Category

Natural

Description

Inscribed 1990. 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.