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The skies above Rakiura / Stewart Island have already seen the area classified as 'Dark Sky Sanctuary'. Photo: Supplied / Sandra Whipp
Fiordland 'Dark Sky Park' would be world's second-largest
April 30, 2021

Fiordland's brilliant night sky could become the second largest Dark Sky Park in the world.

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The southern Milky Way graces the night skies over Wai-iti, near Wakefield - the home of New Zealand's first Dark Sky Park. Photo: Darkskies.nz / Supplied
Wai-iti Reserve near Nelson to be New Zealand's first Dark Sky Park
July 10, 2020

The International Dark Sky Association (IDA) has recently accredited Wai-iti Recreation Reserve and Tunnicliff Forest with the status...IDA executive director Ruskin Hartley said the achievement was testament to the persistence of those involved in the years-long nomination, ...He described such

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