New Zealand – Abel Tasman National Park | The national park is a 225.3 km² area in the north of New Zealand’s South Island between the two bays of Golden Bay and Tasman Bay. In this area, the coast becomes more and more rugged and an impressive limestone landscape with bizarre rock formations and deep cave systems has formed.
More than three quarters of the national park area is densely forested. In the park you can observe many seabirds. The white-cheeked heron, stilts, Tara terns, tuis, makomakos and cuckoo owls are at home here. The climate in this coastal region is quite mild with 2200 hours of sunshine per year.
In the national park you will find numerous small bays with sandy beaches and turquoise waters and granite cliffs. The coast of the Abel Tasman National Park with the marine area has been strictly protected by the Tonga Island Marine Reserve since 1993.
