Photo location game · Oceania
New Zealand landmarks quiz: guess where 10 photos were taken
10 photos taken in New Zealand, each marked on the map with a line about the place. Each round picks five.
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You see a photo, then the map. Five rounds from New Zealand, scored by how far your pin lands from the real spot.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
7 on the mapAll 10 places
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
Auckland in the north and Aoraki / Mount Cook in the south are 850 km apart. Milford Sound, Te Wahipounamu and Fiordland National Park are too far away to fit on the map below, so the map round leaves them out.
By rating, the photos are one easy, six medium, two hard and one expert. The hard ones are Mount Tongariro and Abel Tasman National Park. Aoraki / Mount Cook is rated easy. The one expert photo is Milford Sound. Milford Sound is the easiest one to score full points on, with a 150 km radius. Te Wahipounamu is the fjords, glaciers and rainforests of New Zealand's south-west corner.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places in New Zealand are in the game?
10 places. Auckland is the furthest north and Fiordland National Park the furthest south. Milford Sound, Te Wahipounamu and Fiordland National Park are off the map.
What is the hardest photo from New Zealand?
Milford Sound, the only photo rated expert. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Milford Sound: its accuracy radius is 150 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.