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WHERE TO SEE WILDLIFE IN THE SOUTH ISLAND

 

  • 1: Abel Tasman National Park/Tonga Island
  • 2: Ohau Point
  • 3: Kaikoura Peninsula (seals)
  • 4: Banks Peninsula (seals)
  • 5: Otago Peninsula (seals)
  • 6: Nugget Point, Catlins (pinnipeds)
  • 7: Surat and Cannibal Bays, Catlins (Hooker's sea lions)
  • 8: Cape Foulwind
  • 9: Point Elizabeth
  • 10: Gillespies Beach
  • 11: Knight's Point
  • 12: Kaikoura Peninsula (whales)
  • 13: Banks Peninsula (Hector's dolphins)
  • 14: Kaikoura Peninsula (seabirds)
  • 15: Farewell Spit (gannets)
  • 16: Oamaru Blue penguin colony
  • 17: Knight's Point penguins (also seals)
  • 18: Jackson Head Fiordland crested penguin colony
  • 19: Otago Peninsula Albatross colony and penguins
  • 20: Nugget Point yellow-eyed penguins
  • 21: Cape Farewell waders
  • 22: Lake Grassmere
  • 23: Lake Ellesmere
  • 24: Twizel (black stilt)
  • 25: Awarua Bay and Waituna Lagoon
  • 26: St Arnaud
  • 27: Arthur's Pass
  • 28: Mt Cook
  • 29: Homer Tunnel
  • 30: Stewart Island



 
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