White Herons   Guided Glacier Walk      Information Centres  

Other Attractions are often available in other Zones.  Exploring them here may help reduce the need for travel saving time and budget.  They may also help with learning groups with some revision and variations.  KANES help organisers choose the ones that best meet their groups' interests and needs.

Abel Tasman  recorded this as a "Land Uplifted High".   Part of "the World's most recommended road journey"  (Lonely Planet) 
 
Best & Unique Attractions in the Zone 
●  Lake Matheson           - Create the best picture postcard for your album
●  Glacier Snout Walk    - Amazing river source encased in a huge intimidating canyon   
●  Helicopter flight          - Best way to see a glacier actually working
●  Guided Glacier Walk   - Half day walk for unique adventure
●  Glacier Studies            -  See and understand the forces that shaped the land
●  Rainforests                    - Dinosaur Podocarp & Beech, swamplands, parasites, epiphytes

Other Excellent Attractions
●  Big Screen Movie       - Fly over the zone from ocean to Alps
●  Bushman's Centre       - Have a good ("non- politically correct") laugh
●  Fox and Franz Josef  -  Towns offering rest and information
●  Glow-worms               - Deadly carnivores of the night the terror of the insect world 
●  Information Centres    - Maps, interpretations, AVs, dioramas, photographs
●  Walks                         -  Involving glaciers, dinosaur forests, swamps, lakes and beaches
●  White Herons              - Visit secluded nesting sights of this large noble bird

Geography Studies
●  Overview          -  Alps, dinosaur rainforests and spectacular glaciers
●  Alps                   -  The highest Alps uplifting and making the zone's weather 
●  Glaciers    
●  Glacier Valleys  - U shape valleys, hanging valleys, cirques 
●  Rivers                 - Glacier melt water, - features and processes
●  Erosion              -  Alpine demolition, screes, rivers, glaciers, fans wind, rain
●  Mountains         -  New Zealand's highest
●  Earthquakes      - Causes, history, signs, results
●  Tectonics           - Major on land intercontinental fault, earthquakes
●  Coasts               - Erosion management, estuaries,
●  Haast River       -  Measuring flow and discharge
●  Glacier Lakes   -  Ice remnants, recreation centres
●  Weather            -  World's wettest
●  Kea                   -  World's brightest animal after humans
  
Social Studies
●  Tourism             -  Incentives, natural attractions, services, financing, management
●  Settlements       - Tourism, marketing, secondary attractions, services
●  Conservation     -  Of a unique rainforest of plants and animals
●  Recreation         -  Forests, mountains, glaciers, hunting, rivers, lakes, ocean
●  World Heritage   -  Full of unique flora and fauna from dinosaur times
●  Salmon farm       - A delicacy needing great care
●  Geology               -  Large varieties of rocks due to tectonic mixing
●  Haast Highway       -  New Zealand's newest following the entire
●  Whataroa & Harihari - Fascinating remote forest towns with lost industries
●  South Westland National Park - Pristine forests alps and protected nature