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Deep in the Southern Ocean, the Snares Islands is one of the most pristine island wildernesses on the planet – a sanctuary for penguins and millions of other breeding seabirds.

On the doorstep of one of New Zealand's biggest cities, Muaupoko /Otago Peninsula provides a breeding sanctuary for endangered seabirds, as well as one of the world's rarest marine mammals.

New Zealand’s Te Tau Ihu / Top of the South is a landscape of opposites connected by turbulent currents, which both protect and threaten the creatures who come here for the riches they provide.

Each summer Tikapa Moana o Hauraki/ The Hauraki Gulf lures millions of visitors to a unique seasonal smorgasbord.

North of the New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean meets the Tasman Sea Manawatāwhi/ The Three Kings Islands, works a strange magic on many who go there.