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West Coast
regional council, New Zealand
West Coast, regional council in west-central South Island, New Zealand. It is bounded by the Tasman Sea (west), the unitary authority of Tasman (north), and the regional councils of Canterbury and Otago (east) and Southland (south). The Southern Alps, with their towering peaks and rugged terrain, contribute to its isolation and varied landscape. Mount Cook (12,316 feet [3,754 metres]) is the highest point in New Zealand. The Franz Josef and Fox glaciers and the Taramakau, Hokitika, Wanganui, and Haast rivers all flow northwestward from the Southern Alps; the rivers dissect the narrow coastal plain, and several of them pass near ...(100 of 300 words)