Mountain effects on rainfall amounts and distribution are also briefly covered, including the very high precipitation received on the west coast of the New Zealand Southern Alps and the more even ...

Fifteen people died on June 17, 1929, when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the small farming settlement of Murchison, in the Southern Alps of the ... style of the 1930s. Christchurch citizens ...

Aoraki/Mount Cook, which is New Zealand's tallest mountain and part of the Southern Alps range, is located a little more than 200 miles southwest of Christchurch. Deemed a South Island must-do by ...