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The zone comprises of rolling fertile farming land with lazy rivers exciting coasts and ancient volcanoes.
	Cold conditions, rich volcanic soils and regular rain falls produce excellent vegetables and great farms for sheep, beef and dairy. Violent seas provide a wide variety of coastal features.
Moeraki Boulders	Moeraki Boulders A short beach walk leads us to giant, round ball-shaped rocks mysteriously scattered along a sandy beach. more.
Harbour	Harbour The Dunedin Harbour is surrounded by volcanoes and offers our visitors great views, interesting nature, areas for recreation and sheltered fishing.
*Coasts*	Coasts The coastline here is full of fascinating and scenic features including popular recreational beaches as well as clay and volcanic rock cliffs. Strong, fast Antarctic currents sweep and violent southerly storms to create numerous, fascinating features including;
Geology	Geology There are areas of limestone, sandstone, clay and alluvial material for the geologist to explore.
Waitaki River	Waitaki River Beginning with glaciers, this Large river has passed through lakes, several HEP generators and irrigation schemes before reaching its coastal delta made for well irrigated berry-fruit, sheep, grain and dairy farms.
Penguins	Penguins At special places among the remote beaches nearby we can fined the homes of groups of the extraordinary endangered "yellow-eyed" penguins and the more common "little blue" penguins.
Moa Bone Invercargill Museum	Moa Although now extinct, we encounter facts about the giant bird that wandered all over New Zealand up to 500 years ago. This is the largest bird that ever lived on the earth. Its main predator was the world's largest eagle and that also also vanished with the giant moa.
Tuatara	Tuatara These are one of earth's most ancient animals (and It loves to eat earth's oldest living insect). Like the Kiwi and many other unique New Zealand Species Tuatara once roamed all over New Zealand.
Conservation	Conservation This Zone is packed with unique areas of wild life, seals, albatross and penguins that use the beautiful coastal areas for their home and nesting. all are close to human habitation so careful and deliberate protection from human disturbance.
Volcanoes	Volcanoes Cones and vets are scattered all around this Zone with greatest concentration around Dunedin city. They form its harbour.
Farm Plains	Farm Plains We can learn about the origins and formation of the southern alluvial plains. With high fertility and even regular rainfalls these are the most productive sheep and dairy farms in the South Island.
Marine Life	Marine Life Amid the bays, tidal estuaries and volcanic reefs there are many varieties of marine life here and these can be explored at the universities own aquarium.
Rifting Valley	Rifting Valley At Lake Waihola we witness a rare rifting valley caused by a fault splitting open due to deep underlying forces.

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