Fiordland: southwest New Zealand beautiful world heritage.

The fjord region is located in theNew ZealandSouthwest of the "World Heritage", with its fascinating scenery, unique natural ecology and wildlife, and the famous promenade and be known to all the world. Fiordland National Park (Fiordland National Park) contains a representative amazing fjord (Doubtful Sound) and Milford (Milford Sound), is the largest national park in new zealand.

The fjord region

Southern wild world

Te Anau (Te Anau) center town located in Fiordland, is the gateway to the fjords National Park gateway to. Can provide a full range of tourists hereTravelingService, the town is connected with many scenic tourist trails, also from Milford recent service base.

Milford Sound is a fjord where the most famous, and only by land to the fjord. From the beginning to the fjord open sea about 16 km distance, visitors can take the sightseeing cruise ship, easily through the Fjord, until the boundless sea appears in front of. Just a few hours round trip.

Amazing fjord with its wilderness and wildlife is known, as the second largest fjord in the area, it is 3 times longer than the Milford, area 10 times larger than. Visitors can select a day or night, different way to feel this vast and desolate natural environment.

Natural beauty

Hazy mist of miter

The historical origin

The Maori are the first to find the first human Fiordland beautiful. Formation and name of the fjord region of the reason, the local spread of many myths and legends.

It is half man and half god of Tutera Ki Fano A (Tu-te-raki-whanoa) with his adze Tehamo (Te Hamo) will be the rugged rocks cut a steep canyon. He started from the far south, sketch out a rough coastline with many islands exhibit. Until the sinking of Milford Sound, his technique has to reach the peak of perfection realm, thus creating a as the acme of perfection of the fjord. The Maori language called Pio Pio Tassi (Piopiotahi) of the Milford Sound became his life's greatest masterpiece. Living in the bottom of the queen Haiyinnuyitebo (Hine-nui-te-po) as the fjord beauty deeply shocked, and fear that humans once to see the scenery, would never want to leave. Therefore, she released many sand flies in Milford Sound, trying to let people away from the area.

The Maori ancestors came here mainly to seasonal hunting activities, as well as the search for a "transparent green Taki pregnant" (New Zealand Greenstone). This precious stones has been found in Anisian tower (Anita Bay), in Milford Sound intoHaikouAlso found near.

Visit the fjord area firstEuropeThe man was James O Captain Cook (Captain James Cook) and his crew. In 1773, they in the misty fjords (Dusky Sound) has been docked five weeks. Captain Cook map and a description of the local soon attracted many sealers and whalers have to, thus forming the first European settlers in new zealand. From the middle of the nineteenth Century, survey, explorers and mining began gradually involved in the original no one shows any interest in deep fjord.