Finally! Google Earth Scanned New Zealand!!

[FrostyBoy]

The Powerful Waimakariri!

So if you have never been here and wanted to see "Middle Earth", now you can get a good glimpse!

I'm starting to wonder if the whole NZ being Middle Earth thing is why Google Earth has these scans at all.

[FrostyBoy]

The Mysterious Fiordlands

Those are mountains and that is a gigantic river/lake/sea-inlet btw..

[FrostyBoy]

And Middle of Nowhere, French Settlement: Akaroa

[Caligastia]

Sweet...I'll have to see if they have more than just the north shore of Auckland now.

[Zkribbler]

What!? There are no freeways in Middle Earth! But what's that in the first photo?? It's certainly no well trodden orc trail.

[Caligastia]

Still no improvement around the Auckland area.

[Zkribbler]

Is it just me, or does anyone else have a powerful urge to build a grand manor on the island in that fjord and live like a great laird, swilling brandy out of a crystal goblet and ordering the harried servants around?

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Is it just me, or does anyone else have a powerful urge to build a grand manor on the island in that fjord and live like a great laird, swilling brandy out of a crystal goblet and ordering the harried servants around?

Yes.


...Beautiful female servants.

[chequita guevara]

Why does your coutrny look so fake?

[Caligastia]

Because...until you go there, you don't realize that such beauty exists in this world.

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
What!? There are no freeways in Middle Earth! But what's that in the first photo?? It's certainly no well trodden orc trail.

Its a large river/rapids

there are thousands of stony islands all the way through it, which is why the many water streams look so snake-like.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Sn00py
And Middle of Nowhere, French Settlement: Akaroa

Wait, there are French settlements in New Zealand?

[FrostyBoy]

of course!

Back in the day, when England and France were out settling, there was a large race between the two to settle New Zealand, unfortunately for France, England won the race by a large margin, France was left with a few hotspots, like Akaroa, it's a nice getaway town not far form Christchurch, sits in the middle of one of the world's oldest volcanoes.

[Frozzy]

Back in the day, when England and France were out settling, there was a large race between the two to settle New Zealand

Uh... no there wasn't.

[Flip McWho]

There was a bit of a one. It's one of the reasons why the Brits pushed on with getting the Treaty of Waitangi signed. Apparently a French guy was on the way out here to claim some part of the North Island as the property of France. Or so we are taught.