Photo location game · Oceania
New Zealand landmarks quiz: guess where 10 photos were taken
New Zealand in 10 photographs, each pinned to the map with a line of context. Five are dealt per round.
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A photo, then the map. Five rounds from New Zealand, scored by how far off your pin lands.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
7 on the mapAll 10 places
by id
Sheer cliffs and waterfalls plunging into a deep Fiordland sound.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Round green hobbit-hole doors set in rolling farmland.
Photo: Joe Ross from Lansing, Michigan / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A volcanic massif crossed by New Zealand's most famous day hike.
Photo: Eusebius / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's largest active volcano, with a crater lake and ski fields.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's smallest national park, golden beaches and turquoise coves.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's largest city, the 'City of Sails', built on 50 volcanoes.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's highest mountain at 3,724 metres, in the Southern Alps.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The fjords, glaciers and rainforests of New Zealand's south-west corner.
Photo: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's 'Garden City', rebuilt after the 2011 earthquake.
Photo: Michal Klajban / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
New Zealand's largest national park, fjords and rainforest carved by glaciers.
Photo: Krzysztof Golik / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
The long axis is north to south: 850 km from Auckland to Aoraki / Mount Cook, with the rest of the 7 mainland places strung between. No pin can reach Milford Sound, Te Wahipounamu and Fiordland National Park from this map, so they are left to the cards.
Nobody will sweep this set. Two hard photos (Mount Tongariro and Abel Tasman National Park) against one easy. The expert photo is Milford Sound. The 150 km radius on Milford Sound means the right region is enough for full points. Te Wahipounamu is the fjords, glaciers and rainforests of New Zealand's south-west corner.
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How many places in New Zealand are in the game?
10 places, three of them beyond the mainland map. Auckland is the top of the map and Fiordland National Park the bottom.
Which photo from New Zealand is the hardest?
Milford Sound, the only one rated expert. At that level the score halves every 277 km past the accuracy radius.
Which one is easiest to score full points on?
Milford Sound, which forgives 150 km in every direction before a single point is lost.