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Photo gallery of Manawatu-Wanganui

The Manawatu-Wanganui Region takes up a large proportion of the lower half of the North Island.
The area includes a variety of landscape formations, it is dominated by two significant river catchments, the Whanganui and the Manawatu. The Whanganui River, in the region's northwest, is the longest navigable river in New Zealand. The region also includes the three major active volcanoes of the North Island. Mount Ruapehu at 2,797 m is the tallest mountain in the North Island, Ngauruhoe 2,291 m and Tongariro 1,968 m.
The region contains areas of great ecological significance, approx. a seventh of its land area is a part of the nation's conservation estate. Tongariro National Park is the largest park in the region and is the oldest national park in the country, established in 1887. It is very well known thanks to the Tongrariro Alpine Crossing, one of New Zealand's most spectacular tramping tracks, which it is considered the most popular one-day tramp in New Zealand.
Whanganui National Park is slightly smaller and was established 99 years later. Anyway, it is one of the remotest and most from civilisation isolated national parks, and exploring it from a canoeis the real and remarkable adventure.