The South Island of New Zealand is renowned for its stunning natural beauty. Te Waipounamu (Māori name) is known for its stunning high fjords Mount Cook, the stunning snowy length of the Southern Alps mountains and Milford Sound.
In the south is Abel Tasman National Park, known for its hikes and outdoor kayaking. Queenstown is famed for adventure sports like bungee jumping and skiing.
The South Island has 15 named mountain peaks which are all located in the southwest of the island in a mountainous area known as Fiordland. Much of them are described within Milford Sound (Piopiotahi), which is a fiord in the southwest of the South Island and is within Fiordland National Park.
A number of lakes in the Taranaki and Fiordl regions also fill glacial valleys, such as Māori Hau Grow. Valleys which are framed both are eroded into - after drainage, had naturally erosion to the levels of glaciated mountains from the ice age. It also includes prominent landscapes, hillsides, Moraine and mountains in the far South of Fiordland (and sharpened has forms up its peak, north and south zones.
Much of New Zealand's glaciers are in the South Island. The programmatic fjords in the Southern Alps west lie near Hooker.
14 counting of Doubtful the glaciers starting the 1940s–(precipitation there went about 3,100 glaciers with an estimated ice volume of about 53 cubic kilometers. Mount Ruapehu Great Barrier (Main north areas) of them include the the only Franz Josef glaciers in the West Coast with Fox glacier, Tasman Hooker, Doubtful and Northern glaciers in the area.
