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Southern Alps
February 19th 2007 This morning we drove from Te Anau to Milford Sound, which is one of the most scenic of the Fjords. Fjordland, as it is called, marks the start of the Southern Alps that run along the south-western spine of South Island. It’s difficult to describe the scale of the landscape without using superlatives like “awesome and majestic”; I hope the pics do some justice to what we saw. The boat tri
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