Oriental Bay Beach is Wellington's most popular beach, mostly because it's so close to central Wellington and features a pristine promenade. Even if it's too cold or windy to swim, travelers can ...

Only a 40-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, Waiheke Island receives an avalanche of visitors every summer. But it’s ...

Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to ...

AFP Wellington: The body of a spade-toothed whale - a species so rare it has never been seen alive - appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach ... calf stranding in Bay of Plenty in ...

A sea creature washed up on a New Zealand beach this month and officials are ... was found when a mother and calf were stranded in Bay of Plenty in 2010. There was another stranding in 2017 ...

As a dual citizen of New Zealand, I can say there are countless reasons to book a flight to the beautiful Aotearoa ("land of the long white cloud, in Māori), but pocketing gold on the beach may ...

The whale was carefully removed from the beach, and samples were sent to ... when a mother and calf were stranded along New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. Before a DNA analysis confirmed the difference ...

But the creature that washed up on a beach in the nation’s south ... A second sample was collected in 1950 from New Zealand’s White Bay but was kept in a university’s museum for decades ...