New Zealand

Street view cars have had to travel untold numbers of uneventful urban highways and side streets, but sometimes the drivers get lucky. These select few get the chance to drive along roads that most of us will only ever dream…

Obscure geography trivia time: where would you find the steepest street in the world? You might guess San Francisco. If you're a Guinness Book of Records-reading smart alec, you might say New Zealand. As it turns out, you'd be wrong…

In The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, when the three Pevensie children (minus Edmund) arrived at Aslan's camp, they were happening upon what we (of the other world) know as Elephant Rocks. Looking from above, the boulders look like…

While driving along Telephone Road in Waikato, New Zealand, you may notice that someone appears to have tried to park their car on top of a large tree stump. This doesn't seem to be an officially sanctioned public artwork, but…

With this week's launch of Street View for New Zealand we thought it was time for a quick roundup of the best Street View sights we've posted on our Twitter page over the past week. We've found several things to…

Google's Street View service continues its spread across the globe with today's launch in New Zealand. Skycity in Auckland Spotted any famous, cool or just weird sites in New Zealand? Let us know!