Fiordland National Park
Vast wilderness of glacier-carved fiords, rainforest and granite peaks, a World Heritage area.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fiordland National Park, a long drive from Queenstown, looks past the rainforest and granite to what lies beneath Lake Manapouri. It follows the engineers and some eighteen hundred workers who arrived in the nineteen sixties with a plan to join a mountain lake to the sea, and the rock, weather and isolation they were up against. Best heard beside the lake or on the water at Doubtful Sound.
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