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 ...