The net effect is that the Pacific Plate moves around a pole of rotation which is located about 2,000kms south-south- east of New Zealand. The southern end of the Alpine Fault leads off the coast ...

For the next century, narrow bush tracks were the only means of passage across Haast Pass, until the shingled highway ...

Eli, who is described as an "experienced climber," went on a hiking trip to Mitre Peak in the Milford Sound area of ... to go towards “New Zealand search and rescue and Alpine search and rescue ...

The huge crack in the crust is the Alpine Fault and the uplift rate of the ... substantial distances is a rock avalanche. Anyone in New Zealand on 14 December 1991 must surely remember the ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

Wellington, New Zealand — The strange reproductive habits ... The conditions in the containers mimic the alpine weather in their only former habitat - a remote mountain they were named for ...

WELLINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - The New Zealand government said on Sunday it had set aside NZ$2 billion ($1.19 billion) in its upcoming budget to replace the Defence Force’s aging maritime ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

According to an Official Information Act inquiry, almost 60,000 babies were born in New Zealand last year. The Department of Internal Affairs reviews all proposed names for those new babies.

The name King reigns once more — as the top banned baby name in New Zealand. Every year the country, which has strict naming laws, releases a list of the most commonly declined names.