Startlingly Beautiful by Boat

An image of a local tour boat taken in the Milford Sounds, Fiordland National Park, is featured in the USA Today’s ‘Photo Friday’. “The whole park is part of the Te Wahi Pounamu UNESCO World Heritage site, [which] author Rudyard Kipling called an Eighth Wonder of the World when he visited on his travels,” the photographer explains. “You can explore Milford Sound by taking a two-hour boat trip. [It] is a startlingly beautiful place, one of the more photogenic areas that I’ve been.”


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Unique Prehistoric Dolphin Discovered

Unique Prehistoric Dolphin Discovered

A prehistoric dolphin newly discovered in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury appears to have had a unique method for catching its prey, Evrim Yazgin writes for Cosmos magazine. Aureia rerehua was…