Te Wahipounamu

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. It was added as a World Heritage Site in 1990. It is 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), large. The site has four national parks: Aoraki / Mount Cook Fiordland Mount Aspiring Westland Tai Poutini It has a good representation of the original plants and animals from Gondwana. This was a reason it was added. References