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Landscapes.
Mount Cook.
First stamp in a set of 9, issued on 27.03.1996.
Face value: 5 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 35 x 30 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1502.
- Scott No. 1345.
- StampWorld No. 1545.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1925.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1440.

Mount Cook (Māori: Aoraki) is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 m (12,218 ft). It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. It consists of three summits: from south to north, the Low Peak (3,593 m or 11,788 ft), the Middle Peak (3,717 m or 12,195 ft) and the High Peak. The summits lie slightly south and east of the main divide of the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, with the Tasman Glacier to the east and the Hooker Glacier to the southwest. The mountain is in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, established in 1953 in the Canterbury Region. The park contains more than 140 peaks standing over 2,000 m (6,600 ft) and 72 named glaciers, which cover 40 percent of its 700 km² (170,000 acres). The first known ascent was on December 25, 1894, when New Zealanders Tom Fyfe, John Michael (Jack) Clarke and George Graham reached the summit via the Hooker Valley and the north ridge.

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River Scenes.
Shotover River.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 03.06.1981.
Face value: 40 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 35 x 32 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 824.
- Scott No. 732.
- StampWorld No. 843.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1245.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 794.

The Shotover River (in Maori: Kimi-ākau) is located in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. It flows generally south from the Southern Alps on its journey running through the Skippers Canyon, draining the area between the Richardson Mountains and the Harris Mountains, before flowing into the Kawarau River east of Queenstown. Its length is 75 km (47 mi). Gold mining featured in its early history and it was one of the richest gold-bearing rivers in the world. It is now a popular river for tourism.

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Centennial of the National Parks Movement.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 17.06.1987.
Face value: 80 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 30 x 35 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 997.
- Scott No. 877.
- StampWorld No. 1017.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1429.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 961.

Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, near the town of Twizel. The area was gazetted as a national park in October 1953 and consists of reserves that were established as early as 1887 to protect the area's significant vegetation and landscape. The park stretches for about 60 km (37 mi) along the southwest-northeast direction of the Southern Alps, covering 722 km² (279 sq mi) on the southeastern side of the main spine of the Alps. Glaciers cover 40% of the park area, notably the Tasman Glacier. It is also in the park area the New Zealand's highest mountain, the Aoraki / Mount Cook, at 3,724 m (12,218 ft). On the stamp there is also a drawing of a buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus), a characteristic flower of the area.

The National Parks Movement began in 1887 with an initiative of the paramount chief of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe, Horonuku Te Heuheu, which made an agreement wirh the British Crown that the central North Island volcanoes would become a national park, because different tribes were disputing ownership of the peaks of Ruapehu, Ngāuruhoe and Tongariro, and there was a danger that they would be divided and sold.

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Fox Glacier, Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
Stamp issued on 30.07.1968.
Face value: 28 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 24.3 x 30 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 486.
- Scott No. 398.
- StampWorld No. 502.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 878.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 457A.

Fox Glacier (Māori: Te Moeka o Tuawe) is a 13-kilometre-long (8.1 mi) temperate maritime glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Fox Glacier descends 2,600 m (8,500 ft) from the Southern Alps towards the coast: Like nearby Franz Josef Glacier, it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with a terminal face as low as 300 m above sea level. In 1857 local Māori led Leonard Harper and Edwin Fox to both glaciers, the first Europeans to see them. In 1865, German geologist Julius von Haast was the first to explore and survey the glaciers at the head of this valley, and named them Victoria and Albert, after the queen and her consort. The Victoria Glacier kept its name, but the lower part of the Albert Glacier was renamed in 1872 after a visit by then Premier of New Zealand William Fox.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

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Paintings by Rita Angus.
Wanaka Landscape.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 06.04.1983.
Face value: 35 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Offset lithograpy.
Size: 30 x 34 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 872.
- Scott No. 782.
- StampWorld No. 891.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1314.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 842.

The Wanaka area (Maori: Wānaka) in the in Otago region, on South Island of New Zealand, was known until 1940 as Pembroke. The Lake Wānake stands out in the area, to the south of which is the Clutha / Mata-Au River, which is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park, and the Crown Range mountains, belonging to the Southern Alps, in the which highlights Mount Cardrona, 1,936 m (6,352 ft). It is an area highly appreciated by skiers, who are concentrated in the resort town of Wanaka, at the southern end of the lake.

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Lake Matheson (Te Ara Kairaumati) and Mount Cook (Aoraki), in South Island.
Third stamp in a set of 6, isued on 01.05.1996.
Face value: 40 cents of New New Zeland dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 25 x 30 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1519IBA.
- Scott No. 1356.
- StampWorld No. 1562.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1988.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1463.

Lake Matheson (in Māori, Te Ara Kairaumati) is a small glacial lake in South Westland of New Zealand. It is famous for its reflected views of Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. The Lake was formed in between two moraine terraces left by the rapid retreat of Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe) approximately 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last glacial period. It has 1.5 km (0.93 mi) shoreline and an average depth of 12 m (39 ft). Its surface is 30 ha (74 acres). Some of the creeks that feed it carry organic matter and tannins from the forest, which produce the brownish effect of the waters, which facilitates reflections. The lake was named in honor of Murdoch Matheson, a rancher from the area in the 1870s. In the stamp is Mount Cook (Aoraki), New Zealand's highest mountain at 3,724 m (12,218 ft), in the Southern Alps mountain range.

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Thanks to Kazimierz R. Leszczyński for his contribution (http://leszkarozdub.blogspot.com).

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Franz Josef Glacier.
Last stamp in a set of 6, issued on 12.06.1992.
Face value: 1.80 New Zealand dollars.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 40 x 28 mm.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1235.
- StampWorld No. 1265.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1680.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1179.

Franz Josef (Maori: Kā Roimata or Hine Hukatere) is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park, established in 1960 on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island. After retreating several kilometers between 1940 and 1980, the glacier entered a phase of advance in 1984, which continued until 2008. It descends from its head to 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in the Southern Alps at less than 300 m (980 ft) altitude, about 19 km (12 mi) from the Tasman Sea. The river that emerges from the end of the glacier is called Waiho.