Fiordland National Park
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Fiordland National Park
Fiordland National Park, 4,868 sq mi (12,601 sq km), on the Tasman Sea, SW South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand's largest national park, it was established as a reserve in 1904 and designated a national park in 1952. An area of coastal fjords and rugged mountains, it was scoured by glaciers over tens of thousand of years. The park encompasses many rivers, waterfalls, and lakes as well temperate rainforest. Lake Hauroko, at 1,516 ft (462 m), is the country's deepest lake, and Sutherland Falls is one of the world's highest waterfalls, dropping 1,904 ft (580 m). The park is home to the Fiordland penguin as well as rare, flightless birds including the takahe and the kakapo.
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Fiordland National Park
a national park in New Zealand. The park covers an area of more than 1.2 million hectares (1976). It was created in 1904 in the southwestern part of South Island in a high-mountain coastal region with many deep fjords and waterfalls. Beech forests predominate. The park has many endemic plant species.
The bird life in the park includes the kiwi, notornis, and weka, which are flightless, and the parrot species kea and kakapo; fairy (little) penguins are found on the coast. The park’s large terrestrial mammals include only introduced species, for example, moose, sika deer, red deer, and chamois. These animals are regularly hunted.
REFERENCE
Handbook to the Fiordland National Park. Edited by G. Hall-Jones. Invercargill, 1961.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.