Physical Map of New Zealand - Size A1-59.4 x 84.1cm - Paper Laminated

Good quality

Towns ie queens town missing and some misspelled

Good map at a good price

Lovely size and nice and detailed

I bought this map for use with a talk that I was due to give. It is printed on laminated paper and is ideal for fixing to a stand to display. Admittedly the map states that it is a Physical Map of New Zealand but even then the detail however is rather sparse.I wanted to show where Queenstown, the 29th largest town in New Zealand (resident population 12,500) and one where main tourist towns, was situated.The map showed Arrowtown, the nearby historic gold mining town (population 2,500) and Glenorchy (population 465) but did not include Queenstown.It shows Mount Cook in the correct position but also has a Mount Cook that is apparently the same height but several miles offshore from Dunedin.In summary it was adequate for the purpose for which I wanted it but on examination would not have shown sufficient information for anything more detailed.

As an expat Kiwi I wanted something to help explain things to my London friends. For a map this size (86x60cm) it has relatively few place names, somewhat randomly chosen (i.e. not necessarily the largest in the area) and several of those are incorrectly spelled. Apparently we have a place called Akaora on Banks Peninsula, and somewhere called Kaiyaia at the top of Northland. It isn't just Maori names, ever heard of Panfurly in Otago? It's cheap for a reason. Spend a bit more on one produced in New Zealand.