Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 1990 som naturarv i New Zealand. Platsen hör till regionen Asia and the Pacific.

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Världsarvet har varit en del av den gemensamma UNESCO-listan sedan 1990.

UNESCOThe 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.