Small sun-stroked beaches of white sand and azure warm water. The mighty kauri, towering grey-trunked forest giants with green and bronze heads. Rippling hills of wheaten brown tussock. Glaciers plunging from the snow-clad alps through verdant rainforest to sea-level. Trees burnt and twisted by ferocious winds.

A trace of your finger over the length of a map of New Zealand will give you all of these and much, much more. It's a land that runs through more than 10 degrees of latitiude in the South Pacific and was born from the ongoing struggle between two of the earth's plates.This beneficial collision has uplifted the land to create the magnificent Southern Alps, backbone of the South Island, and the landscape-dominant volcanoes of the North Island.  It's a land of contrasts and diversity that nurtures creativity in those who call it home.

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