National parks word search
Fiordland, Abel Tasman, Aoraki and Rakiura. Twenty words from the national parks of Aotearoa, with a swing bridge, a hut and a kea to keep an eye on your boots.
- Abel Tasman
- Aoraki
- Arthur's Pass
- DOC
- Fiordland
- Glacier
- Hut
- Kahurangi
- Kea
- Milford Sound
- Mount Aspiring
- Nelson Lakes
- Paparoa
- Rakiura
- Ranger
- Swing bridge
- Tongariro
- Track
- Westland
- Whanganui
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| P | N | S | N | A | B | E | L | T | A | S | M | A | N |
| T | M | W | N | A | O | R | A | K | I | N | W | R | K |
| W | O | I | G | E | W | H | A | N | G | A | N | U | I |
| E | L | N | L | C | L | R | A | N | G | E | R | S | T |
| S | T | G | G | F | N | S | P | L | T | B | S | O | R |
| T | R | B | L | A | O | H | O | A | D | A | N | E | A |
| L | A | R | U | A | R | R | A | N | P | X | I | I | K |
| A | C | I | D | O | C | I | D | S | L | A | I | F | I |
| N | K | D | A | A | P | I | R | S | N | A | R | D | U |
| D | S | G | F | H | A | U | E | O | O | P | K | O | R |
| P | M | E | T | U | H | I | E | R | I | U | I | E | A |
| M | O | U | N | T | A | S | P | I | R | I | N | G | S |
| F | I | O | R | D | L | A | N | D | I | H | O | D | U |
| C | K | A | H | U | R | A | N | G | I | K | E | A | M |
Find these words
- Abel Tasman
- Aoraki
- Arthur's Pass
- DOC
- Fiordland
- Glacier
- Hut
- Kahurangi
- Kea
- Milford Sound
- Mount Aspiring
- Nelson Lakes
- Paparoa
- Rakiura
- Ranger
- Swing bridge
- Tongariro
- Track
- Westland
- Whanganui
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About this word search
Tongariro became New Zealand's first national park after Te Heuheu Tūkino IV, paramount chief of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, gifted the sacred peaks to the nation in 1887. Today the national parks run from Abel Tasman with its golden beaches to Fiordland and Rakiura in the far south, and the Department of Conservation looks after their huts, tracks and swing bridges.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Mount Aspiring is the longest with thirteen letters, then Milford Sound with twelve. DOC, Hut and Kea have only three letters and are easy to miss. Arthur's Pass loses its apostrophe in the grid. The K turns up in six words, from Kea to Nelson Lakes, and the double S only in Arthur's Pass. All two-word names run together without spaces.
Plan a trip on paper: find each park on a map and decide which one you would visit first. Older children can look up one walk in each park and how long it takes.
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