Voting closes at 11.59pm on Sunday, January 26. The Best Beaches winners will be announced on Sunday, February 2. Check out the New Zealand Herald for profiles on each of the finalists.

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Best Beach?” It’s time again for the Herald readers to crown New Zealand’s Best Beach, an annual search for our favourite piece of Kiwi coastline in five categories. Here’s everything you ...

The Abel Tasman is New Zealand’s most popular walk. With its temperate climate, strangely sculpted boulder formations, jade-colored ocean, and golden beaches, it’s easy to understand why.

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"It was the worst night of my entire life." That's how Liz Carlson describes finding 145 whales beached and dying on a remote New Zealand beach. The travel blogger from the US was on a five-day ...

The best time to visit the South Island of New Zealand is December to February ... or snowboarding before warming up by soaking in natural hot pools or sipping on locally crafted spirits from ...

However, scientists in New Zealand may have finally caught a break. The country’s conservation agency said Monday a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a ...

Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days ... "Although they are natural occurrences, they are still sad and difficult for ...