South Island, New Zealand: Antony Harrison’s Lakes, Peaks and Coasts
Photographer Antony Harrison spent a year travelling around New Zealand and came away calling it his favourite place on Earth. His South Is...
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Australia & Oceania: Mountains & Nature
Discover mountain scenery, outdoor adventures and natural landscapes in Australia and Oceania. Browse the regional archive, explore the New Zealand collection and follow related stories about hiking and the natural world.
Tongariro National Park: Volcanoes, the Alpine Crossing and Māori Heritage
Three active volcanoes rise from the heart of New Zealand’s North Island: Ruapehu, Ngāuruhoe and Tongariro. Around them lies Tongariro Nati...
5X1NZ: Chuck Berry's Five Queenstown Adventure Sports in One Hour
Skydive, snowboard, mountain bike, bungy jump and jet boat, all inside sixty minutes. That was the challenge New Zealand skydive athlete Ch...
Skier Rescues a Sheep in New Zealand’s Hector Mountains
Queenstown professional skier Pete Oswald was waiting for a photo on the last run of a heli-skiing day when something small and woolly came...
Falls Creek Snow in 2014: Deep Winter at Victoria's Alpine Resort
Snow banked up to the balconies of a lodge and a car buried to its windows: winter 2014 gave Falls Creek, in the Victorian Alps, the kind o...
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Shelf Clouds: 20 Storm Cloud Photos From Romania to Saturn's North Pole
The low, dark wall that slides across the sky ahead of a summer thunderstorm has a name: the shelf cloud. Most of the storm photographs bel...
Blanket Bay Lodge, Glenorchy: Lake Wakatipu Stay, Activities and Walks
Blanket Bay is a small luxury lodge of stone and timber on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, just south of Glenorchy on New Zealand's South I...
Anton Balazh Relief Maps: Nine 3D Views of the World's Mountain Ranges
Anton Balazh, a graphic artist from St. Petersburg, builds 3D renders of Earth that look like photographs taken from orbit. Nine of his rel...
Alison Turner's Vanscapes: New Zealand Through a Campervan Window
When thieves cleaned out Alison Turner's belongings at her first rest stop in New Zealand, she was left with her clothes, a rented camp...
Awakening: Martin Heck’s 4K New Zealand Time-Lapse and How It Was Made
Mountains, racing clouds and shifting light fill Awakening | New Zealand 4K , a time-lapse film by German photographer Martin Heck and his ...
Hot-Air Balloon Skiing in New Zealand: The April Fools' Story of 2014
On 1 April 2014, ski news site Unofficial Networks announced the "world's first hot air balloon skiing" in New Zealand. A com...
Clear-Air Lightning Bolt in Darwin: William Nguyen-Phuoc’s Close Strike
The sky over the tree looks harmless, with no rain curtain and no storm overhead, when a blinding cloud-to-ground bolt slams into the ground...
20 Amazing Cloud Formations: Mammatus, Lenticular, Roll and Shelf Clouds
Clouds come in ten main genera, from wispy cirrus to towering cumulonimbus, but the most spectacular skies usually show something extra: ha...
25 Great Ski Towns of the World: From Chamonix and Zermatt to Niseko
The best ski holidays combine a great mountain with a town worth coming back to at the end of the day. These 25 ski towns and resorts span ...
13 Crater Lakes Around the World: From Oregon's Crater Lake to Lonar
When a volcano blows out its summit or collapses into its own emptied magma chamber, rain and snowmelt can turn the hole into a lake. These ...
Lake Hillier: Australia’s Pink Lake on Middle Island, Western Australia
Lake Hillier is the bubblegum-pink lake on Middle Island, the largest island of the Recherche Archipelago off Western Australia’s south coa...
Arthur’s Pass Snow Train: KiwiRail Ploughs the Midland Line
When heavy snow buries the railway over Arthur’s Pass, KiwiRail sends a train to push its way through. Geoff Mackley’s footage from New Zea...