What Is The Name Of National Park In New Zealand?

          The answer to your question is going to be different than what you expect, simply because the question itself does not seem totally appropriate. Basically, there is not just one national park in New Zealand, as your question seems to suggest. New Zealand has about 13 national parks all across the country.

          The names of the 13 national parks of New Zealand are Tongariro National Park, Egmont National Park, Te Urewera National Park, Whanganui National Park, Abel Tasman National Park, Fiordland National Park, Mount Cook National Park, Mount Aspiring National Park, Arthur's Pass National Park, Kahurangi National Park, Nelson Lakes National Park, Westland National Park, and Paparoa National Park. Of these, the first five are on the North Island, while the remaining eight are on the South island. Besides these 13 national parks, there are also two World Heritage sites in New Zealand. The Tongariro National Park itself is a World Heritage site. The other site consists of four national parks – Mount Cook, Mount Aspiring, Westland and Fiordland.

          National parks make up about 30 percent of the total land area of New Zealand, basically. The first national park of the country was the Tongariro National Park, which was born when the chiefs of Tuwharetoa, a Maori tribe, donated the peaks of Tongariro, Ruapehu, and Ngauruhoe to the country. You might wonder how a chief can donate a volcanic peak. That was possible because these areas were the property of the Maoris right from the time of their ancestors.