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Mirror Lakes and the Eglinton Valley are a part of Te Vahipounamu - South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. This is one of the world's greatest wilderness areas. These Lakes are named for the crystal-clear reflections that occur when the wind has ceased early morning or late evening. The snow and rain-fed Black Creek fills and drains the lakes.

Mirror lakes are a feature created by the Eglinton River as it flowed trough the valley. The river starts at the Divide 30 km along the road to Milford Sound, and flows down the valley to Lake Te Anau. At some points in time the river shifted position and abandoned those deep pools.

Deposition partially filled the cannels, leaving isolated ponds called oxbow, lakes. These lakes are particularly rich in biological terms. They serve as habitat for many animals that rely upon water as part of their life cycle.

New Zealand flax describes common New Zealand perennial plants Phormium tenax and Phormium cookianum, known by the Māori names harakeke and wharariki respectively. They are quite distinct from the Northern Hemisphere plant known as flax (Linum usitatissimum), but the genus was given the common name 'flax' by Anglophone Europeans as it too could be used for its fibres. New Zealand flax produces long leaf fibres that have played an important role in the culture, history, and economy of New Zealand

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River systems, like these found in Fiordland, are becoming increasingly rare on an international scale.

Many New Zealand plant and animal species currently living here will not survive unless the environment is retained and managed.

Next, we headed to the Mirror Lakes, which are so clear and still, especially at dawn and dusk, that you can see the mountains behind them reflected perfectly. There were fallen trees visible under the water, like nature’s version of shipwrecks..

After the Sound, we visited a river where the water had shaped the rocks into smooth curves with holes in them, like Swiss cheese.

Keas sort of look like parrots but with longer, hooked beaks, green feathers and orange patches under their wings. They're disliked in NZ because they’re destructive. One chewed the rubber strip on top of the car as watched. Even worse, they’re known to kill sheep by pecking at their necks until they die.

Mirror lakes are a feature created by the Eglinton River as it flowed trough the valley. The river starts at the Divide 30 km along the roadto Milford Sound, and flows down the valley to Lake Te Anau. At some points in time the river shifted position and abandoned those deep pools. Deposition partially filled the cannels. leaving isolated ponds called oxbow, lakes. These lakes are particularly rich in biological terms. They serve as habitat for many animals rhat rely upon water as part of their life cycle.

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