New Zealand Mirror Lakes

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Haere mai ki te whenua o Aotearoa!
Mirror Lakes
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Welcome to the land of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Mirror Lakes and the Eglinton Valley are a part
of Te Vahipounamu - South West New Zealand World
Heritage Area. This is one of the world's
greatest wilderness areas. These Lakes are named
for the crystal-clear reflections that occur when
the wind has ceased early morning or late
evening. The snow and rain-fed Black Creek fills
and drains the lakes.
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Tasman Sea
Mirror lakes are a feature created by the
Eglinton River as it flowed trough the valley.
The river starts at the Divide 30 km along the
road to Milford Sound, and flows down the valley
to Lake Te Anau. At some points in time the river
shifted position and abandoned those deep pools
South Pacific Ocean
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Tasman Sea
Deposition partially filled the cannels, leaving
isolated ponds called oxbow, lakes. These lakes
are particularly rich in biological terms. They
serve as habitat for many animals that rely upon
water as part of their life cycle.
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Internet image
New Zealand flax describes common New Zealand
perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium
cookianum, known by the Maori names harakeke and
wharariki respectively. They are quite distinct
from the Northern Hemisphere plant known as flax
(Linum usitatissimum), but the genus was given
the common name 'flax' by Anglophone Europeans as
it too could be used for its fibres. New Zealand
flax produces long leaf fibres that have played
an important role in the culture, history, and
economy of New Zealand
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River systems, like these found in Fiordland, are
becoming increasingly rare on an international
scale.
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Many New Zealand plant and animal species
currently living here will not survive unless the
environment is retained and managed.
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After the Sound, we visited a river where the
water had shaped the rocks into smooth curves
with holes in them, like Swiss cheese.
Next, we headed to the Mirror Lakes, which are so
clear and still, especially at dawn and dusk,
that you can see the mountains behind them
reflected perfectly. There were fallen trees
visible under the water, like natures version of
shipwrecks. .
Keas sort of look like parrots but with longer,
hooked beaks, green feathers and orange patches
under their wings. They're disliked in NZ
because theyre destructive. One chewed the
rubber strip on top of the car as watched. Even
worse, theyre known to kill sheep by pecking at
their necks until they die.
Mirror lakes are a feature created by the
Eglinton River as it flowed trough the valley.
The river starts at the Divide 30 km along the
roadto Milford Sound, and flows down the valley
to Lake Te Anau. At some points in time the river
shifted position and abandoned those deep pools.
Deposition partially filled the cannels. leaving
isolated ponds called oxbow, lakes. These lakes
are particularly rich in biological terms. They
serve as habitat for many animals rhat rely upon
water as part of their life cycle.
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2011
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