Press Releases

New Zealand will host the World Heritage Committee’s annual meeting for the first time in July 2007.

Peter Jackson’s King Kong will return in a world first exhibition hosted exclusively by Lower Hutt’s TheNewDowse museum.

Southland shearer Jimmy Clark has smashed a world record after shearing 560 ewes in eight hours.

Hundreds of homing pigeons are helping to promote aviation history, crossing the Cook Strait to deliver pieces of a billboard.

New Zealand’s newest adventure attraction, the Shweeb Velodrome, will open in Rotorua in late August 2007.

The unique natural environment of Farewell Spit, at the northernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island, has landed the area on UNESCO’s tentative list for World Heritage Sites.

A New Zealand initiative to establish a World Heritage Starlight Reserve is underway, with 2009 as the goal for the Lake Takapo and Aoraki Mount Cook skies.