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New Zealand is recognized as the most beautiful country for tourism. And the most beautiful part of New Zealand, is without doubt the country Fjords, namely Fiord Milford Sound, with its majestic beauty, with deep dark blue waters, shoots are more than a kilometer steep slopes of the mountains, densely wooded, and the top covered with caps glaciers . Milford Sound UNESCO included on the list of natural wonders of the world.



Milford Sound Like other fiords of the South Island (a total of about 30) formed as a result of the last glaciation 20,000 years ago. The glacier is almost completely melted 10,000 years ago, only in the high mountains of the South Island glaciers left, descendants of the great glaciations.



Going to the sea, the glacier machined into the rocks huge canyons that form a rugged deep bays, fjords on the seafront and narrow deep lakes in the mountains, some of which have their own, lake, fjord.



The average annual rainfall in Milford Sound is 6813 mm, making it one of the wettest inhabited places not only in New Zealand, but throughout mire.Mestnye people say about this place that 300 days a year there is rain, and the remaining 60 drips from the trees.



Waterfalls break off into the fjord from the heights
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From the fjords of Norway and Chile, which is also very beautiful, New Zealand compares favorably to the complete absence of traces of human activity. Beach them so steeply into the water, that they are not easy to find a place not only for the village, but also just for tourist tent









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