New Zealand road sign

New Zealand road sign Stock Photo
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Contributor:

richard sowersby / Alamy Stock Photo

Image ID:

2JPD1R8

File size:

34.9 MB (1.4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

4288 x 2848 px | 36.3 x 24.1 cm | 14.3 x 9.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

2 March 2010

Location:

Milford Sound, South Island,New Zealand

More information:

A road sign giving a warning of No petrol is available at Milford Sound once having departed from the town of Te Anau on the State Highway 94 on South Island, New Zealand. Fiordland National Park on New Zealandïs South Island. Fiordland National Park is known for the glacier-carved fiords and powerful waterfalls. Milford Sound's weather can be very unpredictable and is recorded as the wettest inhabited place in New Zealand and one of the wettest places on earth with an average rainfall of 182 days annually. Milford Sound was discovered in 1823 when sealer John Grono named it Milford Sound after Milford Haven in his birthplace of Wales in the UK. The Cleddau River, which flows into the fiord, was also named after the same named river in Milford Haven in Wales.