Active tern of the white-fronted tern colony at Pancake rocks, New Zealand. Punakaiki is a small community on the West Coast of the South Island of Ne

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Active tern of the white-fronted tern colony at Pancake rocks, New Zealand. Punakaiki is a small community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, between Westport and Greymouth. The community lies on the edge of the Paparoa National Park. The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes during high tides. Together with the 'pancake'-layering of the limestone (created by immense pressure on alternating hard and soft layers of marine creatures and plant sediments),these form the main attraction of the area.

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