Image credits
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| Image | Subject | Photographer | Licence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aoraki/Mount Cook and the Southern Alps at the head of Lake Pukaki, with the road along the western shore | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons | |
![]() | Aoraki/Mount Cook rising above Lake Pukaki in late-afternoon light, with streaks of cloud | mhx | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | View from Peters Lookout up Lake Pukaki to the Southern Alps, Mount Cook Road below | Bernard Spragg | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Aerial view of snow-covered peaks of the Southern Alps (April 2006) | W. Bulach | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Southern Alps from Douglas Peak to Aoraki/Mount Cook in morning light, seen from Okarito Trig on the West Coast | Pseudopanax | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Mount Hutt range seen across farmland at Windwhistle on the edge of the Canterbury Plains | Wildman NZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Swing bridge on the Hooker Valley Track, with Mount Sefton and The Footstool behind | Jan Helebrant | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Icebergs in Hooker Lake with Aoraki/Mount Cook at the head of the valley | Pseudopanax | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Icebergs on Tasman Lake below the moraine walls, Aoraki/Mount Cook in the background | Pseudopanax | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mueller Hut on the Sealy Range, with snow-covered peaks behind | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | One of the Sealy Tarns, with Mount Sefton reflected in the water | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mueller Lake and the Sealy Range seen from Kea Point | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mount Cook Village from above, with the Hermitage hotel and the wide valley floor beyond | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Hermitage hotel in Mount Cook Village (March 2009) | W. Bulach | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Church of the Good Shepherd on the shore of Lake Tekapo in evening light | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Lake Tekapo with snow-capped mountains across the water | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Russell lupins in flower on the shore of Lake Tekapo in December | Bernard Spragg | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mount John University Observatory above Lake Tekapo (April 2013) | rheins | CC BY 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Milky Way and Southern Cross over the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo | Fraser Gunn | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Lake Ohau looking north from Lake Ohau Alpine Village, cloud on the peaks at the head of the lake | Wildman NZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
| Tussock-covered hills in the Lindis Pass | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons | |
![]() | Franz Josef Glacier at the head of its valley, seen from the valley walk | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Terminal face of Fox Glacier between bare rock valley walls | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mount Tasman (left) and Aoraki/Mount Cook (right) reflected in Lake Matheson in the morning | Pseudopanax | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Arthur's Pass railway station in Arthur's Pass village | Mike Dickison | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Devil's Punchbowl Falls, Arthur's Pass National Park (portrait) | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Looking down the valley at Arthur's Pass from the Avalanche Peak track | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Otira Viaduct on State Highway 73 below Arthur's Pass | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The TranzAlpine train crossing the Bealey River bridge | Kevin Prince | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Limestone boulders at Castle Hill (Kura Tawhiti), Canterbury | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Aerial view of Mount Aspiring/Tititea with the Bonar Glacier and Mount Avalanche (peaks named by Commons image annotations; the Flickr caption only says near Mount Cook) | Alex Proimos | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Rob Roy Glacier across the head of the Rob Roy Valley in spring 2014 | Pseudopanax | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | That Wanaka Tree standing in Lake Wanaka, snow-capped mountains behind | Pedro Szekely | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Lake Wanaka and its arms seen from the Roys Peak track | Sky_xe | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Remarkables and Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown, a wooded peninsula in the foreground | Σ64 | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Blue Pools at the confluence of the Blue River and Makarora River, on the Haast Pass highway | Pseudopanax | Public domain | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | A kea (Nestor notabilis), the alpine parrot, on snowy rock | Bernard Spragg | CC0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Mount Cook lily (Ranunculus lyallii) flowering in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park | Krzysztof Golik | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Coronet Peak ski field near Queenstown in winter (July 2011) | Kiwi Discovery Queenstown | CC BY 2.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | Two snowboarders on Mt Hutt looking out over the Black Hill Range | Bare Kiwi & Experience Mid Canterbury | CC BY 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |
![]() | The Avon River in central Christchurch | Michal Klajban | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikimedia Commons |






































