Kapiti Coast,New Zealand, 2006
OCEAN
The Kapiti Coast area has also made appearances in television and film. Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings and King Kong fame) is from Pukerua Bay and went to high school at Kapiti College in Raumati Beach. Scenes from both of the aforementioned movies have been filmed on the Kapiti Coast. During the filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, some of the seminal battle scenes in the fields in front of Minas Tirith were shot in part at Queen Elizabeth Park. Kapiti Island figured in King Kong with the scenes approaching the lost island of King Kong shot in the waters between Raumati Beach and the island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapiti_Coast
The Tasman Sea is the large body of water between Australia and New Zealand, approximately 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) across. It extends 2,800 km (approx.) from north to south. It is a south-western segment of the South Pacific Ocean. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania. The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration.
Pacific Ocean. West side of North island. New Zealand.
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/06/08/oceans/
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Great info, and beautiful beach shots!
Thanks I also know not much about NZ. I love to search for interesting information about everything here.
Miles and miles of unspoiled scenery, just gorgeous. xxx
Sure is. Wonderful to see and walk there
I haven’t made it to NZ yet but every photo I see is breathtaking, really have to figure out a trip there sometime. 🙂
It is really worth it.
mooi foto’s
Dankie, dis my gewilde see fotos