Features

Across a long, white sweep of sand in southern New Zealand the world's fastest Indian roars by with Hollywood cameras hot in pursuit.

Corporal Bill Henry "Willie" Apiata was the first winner of the new Victoria Cross (VC) of New Zealand, which was instituted in 1999.

There is an ancient whakatauki (proverb) of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori people that metaphorically reflects on the inevitable fall of great leaders and the consequential uprising of the new generation to take their place.

A New Zealand invention - skates with a modern twist - has rolled out to become a multi million dollar company.

Imagine hiking for six days, never seeing another soul and not even stepping out of a national park? If you don’t believe there’s such a place left on earth then you haven’t discovered Kahurangi National Park.

Ask most people what a ‘fairy tern’ is and you’re likely to get an answer that relates to the latest moves on the TV hit ‘Dancing with the Stars’.

Most couples heading off for a weekend away might be looking for romance but the Taylors from Waikato in New Zealand’s North Island had something else in mind.

Visitors to the Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand’s South Island may think they’re experiencing a modern trend in eco-friendly tourism, but practising sustainability is nothing new around here.

It's not a sport for the faint hearted – or clumsy. Bouldering is for the sure-footed, with athletes rock climbing without the aid of ropes or a harness.

A consummate experimentalist, Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) was responsible for a remarkable series of discoveries in the fields of radioactivity and nuclear physics.