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Story: Southern beech forest

Mixed forest, Ship Cove, Marlborough Sounds

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Mixed forest, Ship Cove, Marlborough Sounds

Beech forest grows on dry ridges (dark green) and the highest slopes of the Marlborough Sounds. The lower slopes and gullies carry regenerating broadleaf trees, and mature broadleaf forest grows on the mid-slopes above the memorial cairn to James Cook.

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Joanna Orwin, Southern beech forest – Distribution, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13310/mixed-forest-ship-cove-marlborough-sounds (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Joanna Orwin, published 1 March 2009.