National parks in New Zealand
There are 14 national parks in New Zealand , which together make up around 10 percent of the country's total area.
The Department of Conservation (DoC) is responsible for maintaining the parks .
list
Surname | Founding | Size [km²] | comment | map | photo | |
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Tongariro National Park | 1887 | 786.53 |
UNESCO - world cultural and natural heritage ; Source of the area information: |
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Egmont National Park | 1900 | 341.49 |
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Arthur's Pass National Park | 1929 | 1,185.22 |
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Abel Tasman National Park | 1942 | 235.03 |
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Fiordland National Park | 1952 | 12,782.14 | Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage |
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Mount Cook National Park | 1953 | 722.92 | Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage |
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Te Urewera National Park | 1954 | 2,090.72 |
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Nelson Lakes National Park | 1956 | 1,011.95 |
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Westland National Park | 1960 | 1,317.08 | Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage . The area includes 25 hectares of the maritime part of the national park. |
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Mount Aspiring National Park | 1964 | 3,596.96 | Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage |
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Whanganui National Park | 1986 | 743.85 |
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Paparoa National Park | 1987 | 433.1 |
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Kahurangi National Park | 1996 | 4,518.3 |
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Rakiura National Park | 2002 | 1,403.59 | on the hardly inhabited Stewart Island off the South Island |
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Total: | 31,168.53 |
- Note: The area data of the national parks are as of May 2019 and are partly taken from the World Database on Protected Areas .
See also
literature
- Otmar Lind, Andrea Niehues: New Zealand. The most beautiful national parks . Reise Know-How Edgar Hoff, Rappweiler 1998, ISBN 3-923716-15-X .
- Matthias Schellhorn: Nature guide. New Zealand . BLV, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-405-14319-5 .
Web links
- National parks . Department of Conservation ,accessed September 14, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walks in and around Tongariro National Park . (PDF; 6.4 MB) Department of Conservation , accessed on May 9, 2020 (English).
- ^ Protected Areas - New Zealand . In: Protected Planet . UN WCMC , accessed on May 3, 2019 .
- ^ Te Urewera in New Zealand . In: Protected Planet . UN WCMC , accessed on May 3, 2019 .