Story Angles

Joining the ranks of New Zealand's top luxury lodges in 2002, Fiordland Lodge combines comfort and indulgence with design that reflects the rich Fiordland landscape.

Gravity Hill is Australasia's first park dedicated to a sport dreamed up by American snowboarders 10 years ago.

The Himatangi sand dunes were once an important gathering place for Maori who regularly visited the area to fish and collect shellfish. The middens (piles of shells) they left behind provide a fascinating record of what the area used to look like.

Situated at Foxton, the Manawatu River Estuary is one of the most important estuarine ecosystems in New Zealand.

Manawatu in the North Island of New Zealand is home to a number of interesting geographical features.

Manawatu’s 6000-year-old sand dune field has attracted great interest from geographers world-wide.

Wellington School of Design graduate Rebecca Taylor is a role model for young fashion designers.

Carrington Resort located in Carrington Farms offers luxury accommodation, a tournament standard golf course, an Angus stud farm, one of Northland's largest plantings of grapes and a restored wetland and thriving breeding zone for birds.

New Zealand merino wool is being used in the fashion houses of Yves St Laurent and Ralph Lauren as well as by several leading international fabric manufacturers and knitwear companies including Italian suit manufacturer Loro Piana and American suitmaker Oxford Clothes.

The seven distinctive peaks that mark the Cape Brett peninsula’s dragon-like spine are said to represent the seven waka from the great migration when Maori sailed from their mythical homeland of Hawaiiki 1000 years ago.