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Artist's Palette - Waiotapu, just outside Rotorua
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Artist's Palette and Champagne Pool
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Champagne Pool
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The Devil's Bath
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Bubbling mud at Hell's Gate (Tikitere) - Rotorua
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Lake Pukaki - The glacial flour in the water only reflects blue light, hence the colour
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Glacial Ice, Tasman Lake
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Tasman Lake is formed by glacial meltwater and only began to form in the 1970s
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Mount Aoraki is part of the Southern Alps on the South Island
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Dusky dolphins (above and below) - Several hundred call the coastal waters of Kaikoura home
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Strathmore Saddle with Mount Taranaki in the distance
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The boulders started to form around 60 million years ago during the Paleocene epoch, on an ancient sea floor. The largest boulders took 4 million years to form.
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Some of the spectacular waterfalls are permanent whilst others are a transient by-product of the frequent torrential downpours the region is known for. It's reckon that Milford Sound is the wettest place in New Zealand, if not the world
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Sandfly Bay, home to sand dunes and New Zealand sea lions (and the odd seagull)
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The pancake layering is due to the composition of the limestone. When forming, water pressure caused alternating layers of hard limestone and softer, mud-rich layers to solidify. Erosion then caused the softer layers to wear away faster than the harder ones, causing the pancake effect
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Crossing the Coromandel Peninsula (looking west)
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Bay at Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island
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Bay of Plenty, North Island
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Sunset view on the Coastal Pacific Railway, somwhere between Kaikoura and Picton (South Island)