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February 6, 2004
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Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand
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1997
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Maria Stenzel
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"Over the past 125,000 years tectonic forces have lifted beaches here to form [Kaikoura] [P]eninsula's green hills. A legend of the Maori, New Zealand's indigenous people, says that an apprentice wanting to please the Creator put underwater mountains here, framing Kaikoura Canyon."
—From "Deep Mysteries of Kaikoura Canyon," June 1998, National Geographic magazine.
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