NASA ISS photo of NZ South Island in 2003 after a '50-year' blizzard.
(Rarity, not duration :-).)

Relatively few New Zealanders see the impressive expanse of the NZ Southern
Alps + Kaikoura Range and many people have no real impression of how
extensive and rugged the mountains are.
An Auckland-Christchurch flight and a window seat on a clear day provides
awesome views.

In Christchurch on a clear winter day the alps form a 200 or so degree
backdrop to the city and from a suitable viewing point stretch from horizon
to horizon (with the sea taking up the other 160 degrees).
I have a many-many-many shot panorama thereof. I should put it online.

This is probably the best SI snow photo I've seen - worth saving if such
things are of interest.
You get a closer view of a fair bit of this in the Lord of the Rings
'lighting the beacons' sequence.


https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/67000/67355/NewZealand.A=
2003192.2235.250m.jpg?fbclid=3DIwAR1mJwVQpFXAq0e5yaLgdc7NL2tFhAbsI3w2vwuDKV=
zVRwD3ks2UAkQ_h-Y


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