Te Wahipounamu
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World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand
Key facts
- Location
- South Island , New Zealand
- Criteria
- Natural: vii, viii, ix, x
- Inscription
- 1990 (14th Session )
- Area
- 2,600,000 ha
- Coordinates
- 45°02′10″S 167°19′12″E / 45.03611°S 167.32000°E / -45.03611; 167.32000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- New Zealand
- Located in
- Southland Region
- Area
- 2600000
- Image
- MilfordSound.jpg
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- Commons category
- Te Wahipounamu
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Te Wahipounamu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.