Fiordland is located on South-west of the South Island, and they are quite spectacular. It is amazing to watch mountains covered by lush forest immersed in the ocean. Additionally as it is a very wet place, the mountain slopes drain excess rainwater in the form of waterfalls. Even so, what I found most interesting was the kind of forest that grows here. It is called beech forest and forms a very dense mass of vegetation with impossible trunk shapes, all covered by a carpet of moss that could be used as a mattress. Of course, it is mainly composed by nothing more than a few species of beechs, but their appearance is quite different from the group of beech forests in the Northern hemisphere. The explanation is easy: when Pangea broke into continents, all southern hemisphere beech forests started evolving in a different way compared to the ones on the Northern hemisphere.
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