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Dune land features

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Dune land features

This view of the sand dunes of the Aupōuri Peninsula looks westwards, in the direction of the prevailing westerly winds which blow onshore at Ninety Mile Beach. Dune features seen here include fore dunes (those immediately behind the beach), sand plains, dune lakes, and active and vegetated dunes.

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Carl Walrond, Dune lands – Dunes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14034/dune-land-features (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.