Exploring parties still go out and find new lakes, new passes, and new waterfalls.

It is but a few years since the Sutherland Falls, 2,000 feet high, were first revealed to civilized man, nor was there ever a region better worth searching than the Southern Alps.

Every freshly-found nook and corner adds beauties and interests.

Falls, glaciers and lakes are on a grand scale.

The Tasman glacier is eighteen miles long and more than two miles across at the widest point; the Murchison glacier is more than ten miles long; the Godley eight.