Granite formations on Mt Titiroa in Fiordland. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

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Who says rocks aren’t beautiful? Shaun Barnett finds five places where the granite will leave you marvelling

Granite forms a distinctive feature in the landforms of several of our national and forest parks. It’s a plutonic rock, classed in the igneous group: rock that has cooled from a molten state very slowly, forming sizeable crystals. Granite is usually pinkish to white in colour, although occasionally brown, and the glint you sometimes see […]
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