Pancake Rocks Blowhole
by Peter Mooyman
Title
Pancake Rocks Blowhole
Artist
Peter Mooyman
Medium
Photograph - Digital Image
Description
This is the blowhole at Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki which is a small community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, between Westport and Greymouth. The community lies on the edge of the Paparoa National Park.
The Pancake Rocks are a very popular tourist goal at Dolomite Point south of the main village. The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes during high tides. Together with the 'pancake'-layering of the limestone (created by immense pressure on alternating hard and soft layers of marine creatures and plant sediments), these form the main attraction of the area.
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March 28th, 2012
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