SIGHTS AND LANDMARKS IN NEW-ZEALAND

Erik Kurist & Markus Ruukel

Known Landmarks

Sky Tower Tane Mahuta The Beehive Moeraki Boulders Ninety Mile Beach Aoraki / Mount Cook Atatürk memorial

Sky Tower Observation and telecommunications tower 328 metres high Tallest man-made structure in the Southern

Hemisphere Building it cost more than 40 million € It was opened on 03.08.97

Tane Mahuta About 2,500 years old 51.2 meter high 516.7 m3 big giant kauri tree Maori for “Lord of the forest“ largest kauri tree in the world

The Beehive New-Zealand`s Parlament House Was built for 12 years Made by a scottish architect Construction started at 1969 Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the building in

1977

Moeraki Boulders unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach Māori legends say the rocks came from

the wreck of a large sailing canoe called

Arai-te-uru

Ninety Mile Beach

Actualy 55 miles long (90km) Got it`s name from missionaries In maori the name is Te Oneroa-a-Tōhē

Aoraki / Mount Cook

highest mountain in New Zealand ~10 times as high as the highest

mountain in Estonia 3,724 m high English name was given in 1851 The first ascent was on 25 December

1894

Atatürk memorial

Memorial to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk  First leader of the Republic of Turkey Designed by Ian Bowman

References http://

www.newzealand.com/ie/article/famous-new-zealand-landmarks/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Tower_(Auckland) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81ne_Mahuta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeraki_Boulders https://nz.totaltravel.yahoo.com/news-opinions/galleries/g/-/

14940649/2/landmarks-of-new-zealand/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_Mile_Beach,_New_Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki_/_Mount_Cook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waipapa_Point_Lighthouse http://

www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/ataturk-memorial-wellington