wildflowers - Putangirua Pinnacles loop track
This series documents a day’s tramping on the circuit that takes in the Putangirua Pinnacles, the river valley leading to them, the forest topping the hills either side of the valley, which were thick with kanuka blossom, and views out to sea and Lake Onoke in the south and out to Cape Palliser in the north.
The pinnacles in this series were one of the many sites around New Zealand for the filming of "The Return of the King" in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The "badlands erosion" of Putangirua Pinnacles is a spectacular landscape feature. When the Aorangi Range was an island, 7 to 9 million years ago, screes poured gravels onto the coast, much as they do today around Cape Palliser.
The Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravels to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Where cemented silts or rocks within the gravel beds prove more resistant than the underlying sediments, spectacular individual pinnacles or "hoodoos" are formed.
The Putangirua Pinnacles are one of the best examples in New Zealand of badlands erosion and earth pillar formation.
The eerie scenes in The Return of the King as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride along the Dimholt Road to meet the Army of the Dead were filmed against the surreal backdrop of the Pinnacles.
This series documents a day’s tramping on the circuit that takes in the Putangirua Pinnacles, the river valley leading to them, the forest topping the hills either side of the valley, which were thick with kanuka blossom, and views out to sea and Lake Onoke in the south and out to Cape Palliser in the north.
The pinnacles in this series were one of the many sites around New Zealand for the filming of "The Return of the King" in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The "badlands erosion" of Putangirua Pinnacles is a spectacular landscape feature. When the Aorangi Range was an island, 7 to 9 million years ago, screes poured gravels onto the coast, much as they do today around Cape Palliser.
The Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravels to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Where cemented silts or rocks within the gravel beds prove more resistant than the underlying sediments, spectacular individual pinnacles or "hoodoos" are formed.
The Putangirua Pinnacles are one of the best examples in New Zealand of badlands erosion and earth pillar formation.
The eerie scenes in The Return of the King as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride along the Dimholt Road to meet the Army of the Dead were filmed against the surreal backdrop of the Pinnacles.
wildflowers - Putangirua Pinnacles loop track
This series documents a day’s tramping on the circuit that takes in the Putangirua Pinnacles, the river valley leading to them, the forest topping the hills either side of the valley, which were thick with kanuka blossom, and views out to sea and Lake Onoke in the south and out to Cape Palliser in the north.
The pinnacles in this series were one of the many sites around New Zealand for the filming of "The Return of the King" in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The "badlands erosion" of Putangirua Pinnacles is a spectacular landscape feature. When the Aorangi Range was an island, 7 to 9 million years ago, screes poured gravels onto the coast, much as they do today around Cape Palliser.
The Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravels to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Where cemented silts or rocks within the gravel beds prove more resistant than the underlying sediments, spectacular individual pinnacles or "hoodoos" are formed.
The Putangirua Pinnacles are one of the best examples in New Zealand of badlands erosion and earth pillar formation.
The eerie scenes in The Return of the King as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride along the Dimholt Road to meet the Army of the Dead were filmed against the surreal backdrop of the Pinnacles.
This series documents a day’s tramping on the circuit that takes in the Putangirua Pinnacles, the river valley leading to them, the forest topping the hills either side of the valley, which were thick with kanuka blossom, and views out to sea and Lake Onoke in the south and out to Cape Palliser in the north.
The pinnacles in this series were one of the many sites around New Zealand for the filming of "The Return of the King" in the Lord of the Rings movies.
The "badlands erosion" of Putangirua Pinnacles is a spectacular landscape feature. When the Aorangi Range was an island, 7 to 9 million years ago, screes poured gravels onto the coast, much as they do today around Cape Palliser.
The Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravels to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Where cemented silts or rocks within the gravel beds prove more resistant than the underlying sediments, spectacular individual pinnacles or "hoodoos" are formed.
The Putangirua Pinnacles are one of the best examples in New Zealand of badlands erosion and earth pillar formation.
The eerie scenes in The Return of the King as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride along the Dimholt Road to meet the Army of the Dead were filmed against the surreal backdrop of the Pinnacles.