National parks in New Zealand

Tongariro Egmont Te-Urewera Whanganui Fiordland Mount Cook Westland   Mount aspiring Arthur's Pass Abel Tasman Nelson Lakes Paparoa Kahurangi Rakiura

National park

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
Tongariro National Park	1887	786.53	UNESCO - world cultural and natural heritage ; Source of the area information:
Egmont National Park	1900	341.49
Arthur's Pass National Park	1929	1,185.22
Abel Tasman National Park	1942	235.03
Fiordland National Park	1952	12,782.14	Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage
Mount Cook National Park	1953	722.92	Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage
Te Urewera National Park	1954	2,090.72
Nelson Lakes National Park	1956	1,011.95
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.
Mount Aspiring National Park	1964	3,596.96	Te Wahipounamu , UNESCO - World Heritage
Whanganui National Park	1986	743.85
Paparoa National Park	1987	433.1
Kahurangi National Park	1996	4,518.3
Rakiura National Park	2002	1,403.59	on the hardly inhabited Stewart Island off the South Island
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

• Conservation Parks in New Zealand
• Conservation Areas in New Zealand
• Forest Parks in New Zealand

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

1. ↑ Walks in and around Tongariro National Park . (PDF; 6.4 MB) Department of Conservation , accessed on May 9, 2020 (English).  
2. ^ Protected Areas - New Zealand . In: Protected Planet . UN WCMC , accessed on May 3, 2019 .  
3. ^ Te Urewera in New Zealand . In: Protected Planet . UN WCMC , accessed on May 3, 2019 .