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ROCK SCAPES AND WATERFALLS WHERE
PLANTS AND ANIMALS TAKE SHELTER
FROM THE HARSH ELEMENTS.
AT THE FOOT OF THE ESCARPMENT
ARE LFROM IT ARE INVALUABLE.÷÷÷P
>> Narrator: IN THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF NEW ZEALAND IS ONE OF
THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESSES LEFT
ON THE PLANET.
FIORDLAND NATIONAL PARK IS A
LANDSCAPE OF EXCEPTIONAL BEAUTY,
ALMOST UNTOUCHED BY DEVELOPMENT
BUT SHAPED BY POWERFUL AND RAW
FORCES OF NATURE.
IT'S A PLACE TO ESCAPE CITY LIFE
AND ENTER A LAND OF PRIMEVAL
FORESTS...
RUGGED MOUNTAIN PEAKS...
AND CALM, BLUE WATERS.
RARE AND UNIQUE ANIMALS MAKE
FIORDLAND THEIR HOME, AND HUMANS
ARE ONLY LUCKY VISITORS.
IN AN AGE OF TRAFFIC JAMS,
CROWDS, AND CONCRETE, FIORDLAND
IS A GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD THE
WAY IT ONCE WAS -- PURE,
UNSPOILED, AND FULL OF WONDER.
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HIDDEN AWAY AT THE EDGE OF THE
WORLD IN A REMOTE CORNER OF THE
VAST PACIFIC OCEAN IS AN ISLAND
NATION CALLED NEW ZEALAND.
ALTHOUGH IT IS ONLY ABOUT HALF
THE SIZE OF CALIFORNIA,
NEW ZEALAND CONTAINS A
STAGGERING VARIETY OF LANDSCAPES
AND WILDLIFE.
AND THE JEWEL IN ITS CROWN IS A
NATIONAL PARK ON THE WEST COAST
OF THE SOUTH ISLAND CAED
FIORDLAND.
FIORDLAND'S REMOTENESS AND
RUGGED TERRAIN IS ALMOST
UNTOUCHED BY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.
PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
ARE DRAWN HERE TO EXPERIENCE ITS
NATURAL WONDERS AND EXPLORE
8,000 SQUARE MILES OF EPIC
WILDERNESS.
THIS EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY WAS
RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED NATIONS
IN 1986 WHEN IT WAS MADE A WORLD
HERITAGE AREA, PUTTING FIORDLAND
IN THE SAME COMPANY AS THE GREAT
PYRAMIDS AND THE GRAND CANYON.
NEW ZEALAND IS ONE OF THE MOST
ISOLATED PLACES ON EARTH, TUCKED
FAR AWAY IN THE DEEP SOUTH OF
THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
IT IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS
JAPAN AND CONSISTS OF TWO MAIN
ISLANDS.
THE SOUTH ISLAND IS LARGER BUT
ONLY HAS A QUARTER OF
NEW ZEALAND'S 4 MILLION PEOPLE.
THERE ARE HUGE AREAS WITH
VIRTUALLY NO ONE LIVING IN THEM,
AND THE BIGGEST WILDERNESS OF
ALL IS FIORDLAND.
FIORDLAND NATIONAL PARK IS ONE
OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD,
BIGGER THAN YELLOWSTONE AND
YOSEMITE PUT TOGETHER.
IT IS A LAND OF SNOWCAPPED
MOUNTAINS AND A RUGGED COASTLINE
GOUGED BY 14 DEEP WOUNDS...
NARROW BUT DEEP CHANNELS CALLED
FJORDS THAT GIVE THE PARK ITS
NAME.
RISING ALMOST STRAIGHT OUT OF
THE OCEAN ARE MIGHTY MOUNTAINS
AND IMPOSSIBLY HIGH SEA CLIFFS.
FIORDLAND HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST
RAINFALLS ANYWHERE -- OVER 20
FEET A YEAR.
THE RAIN FEEDS PRISTINE RIVERS
AND FLOWS OVER THE JAGGED
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