Story: Natural environment All images & media From page 1 – Geography and geology New Zealand’s isolated position A far-flung country The North Island volcanoes The Waimakariri River (1st of 2) The Waimakariri River (2nd of 2) From page 2 – Coasts New Zealand’s varied coastline (1st of 3) Rocky shores (2nd of 3) Black sand beaches (3rd of 3) Kaikōura’s sperm whales Pāua-shell house, Bluff The New Zealand continent From page 3 – Climate Storm, February 2004 Signs of the seasons (1st of 4) Pōhutukawa blooms in summer (2nd of 4) Autumn, Macetown, Central Otago (3rd of 4) Snowfall, Hawke's Bay (4th of 4) Wellington’s winds The climate and the land (1st of 2) River in flood, Glenorchy, Otago, 1993 (2nd of 2) Marlborough vineyards Annual mean air temperatures From page 4 – The bush and its plants Erosion on East Coast hill country North Island conifer-broadleaf forest Beech forest, Arthur’s Pass National Park The bushline Taking to the hills (1st of 3) A climber in the Huxley Valley, 2001 (2nd of 3) A tramper on Sunrise Ridge, Mt Owen (3rd of 3) New Zealand flax (1st of 3) Weaving with flax (2nd of 3) A flax backpack (3rd of 3) Snow groundsel (Dolichoglottis) Kāingaroa Forest showing recently logged area From page 5 – Fauna Hunted to extinction (1st of 3) Moa (2nd of 3) Bush wren (3rd of 3) Predators (1st of 3) The Pacific rat (2nd of 3) Male stoat hiding in tussock (3rd of 3) Endangered birds (1st of 2) North Island brown kiwi (2nd of 2) The tuatara (1st of 2) Male tuatara (2nd of 2) Land snail (Wainuia urnula) eating an earthworm Koaro (Galaxias brevipinnis) Whitebaiting
