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The coastal town of Kaikoura is one of the best places in the world for watching whales and dolphins. Offshore, the seabed drops rapidly to the kilometre-deep Kaikoura Canyon, a geographic feature that brings ocean mammals here in large numbers.
The deep inlets and drowned river valleys of the Marlborough Sounds are often described as ‘a little slice of Norway'.