Travel Reference
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Kaikoura Range. Few places in the world are home to such a variety of easily spottable
wildlife: whales, dolphins, NZ fur seals, penguins, shearwaters, petrels and wandering al-
batross all live in the area or pass by.
Marine animals are abundant due to ocean-current and continental-shelf conditions: the
seabed gradually slopes away from the land before plunging to more than 800m where the
southerly current hits the continental shelf. This creates an upwelling of nutrients from the
ocean floor into the feeding zone.
