Fiordland

Fiordland is a geographic region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western-most third of Southland. Most of Fiordland is ruled by the steep sides of the snow-capped Southern Alps, deep lakes, and its steep, glacier-carved and now ocean-flooded western valleys. The name “Fiordland" comes from a variation spelling of the Scandinavian phrase for this sort of steep valley, fjord.

The vicinity of Fiordland is ruled by means of, and really kind of coterminous with, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand's biggest National Park. Due to the often steep terrain and excessive amount of rainfall supporting dense flowers, the indoors of the Fiordland place is largely inaccessible. As a result, Fiordland was by no means subjected to great logging operations, and even attempts at whaling, seal searching, and mining had been on a small scale and shortlived, partially also because of the hard climate. Today, Fiordland carries by means of far the finest volume of unmodified vegetation in New Zealand and full-size populations of endemic flowers and threatened animals, in a few instances the only final wild populations.