Like a giant thumb, Banks Peninsula juts 30km into the Pacific Ocean from the Canterbury coastline creating its own climate and a unique habitat. Two giant calderas, now open to the sea, have been formed here by the collapsed cones of the Lyttelton and Akaroa volcanoes which it is estimated once reached well over 1500m. […]
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