The Knights of Fortune Departure – Fernsehenserien.de
“Adventure New Zealand” immerses viewers in the fascinating world of New Zealand. From a German perspective, the two-part series connects the history of the island kingdom with the present. Deep rainforests, massive glaciers, hissing volcanoes, and a rugged coastline: There is hardly anywhere else in the world where so many terrains collide in such a small space as New Zealand. Here, nature has been able to develop unhindered for a long time. New Zealand is one of the most recently inhabited areas on the planet. It was not until the 13th century that the Maori from Polynesia arrived by boat to the islands in the central South Pacific, followed by the Europeans several hundred years later.
It was German scientists like Julius von Haast who discovered New Zealand in the early 19th century. “The Land of the Long White Cloud,” as the Maori called their homeland, was largely unexplored. Von Haast traveled the country with a passion. He discovered mountains, rivers, extinct giant birds and founded New Zealand’s first museum. Alongside the scientists came fortune hunters. They left the frontier and Europe to start a new life on the other side of the world.
Men like Bendix Hallenstein. He built a textile empire and was appointed mayor of Queenstown. To this day, dozens of branches in New Zealand bear his name. The island kingdom in the South Pacific remains a dream destination for many today. Europeans. The North Island is dominated by long sandy beaches, hills and rugged volcanoes. The South Island, on the other hand, is dominated by the New Zealand Alps, a massive mountain range from which massive glaciers extend into the valley. There they encounter dense, temperate rainforests.
This diverse landscape is unparalleled anywhere in the world, and it inspires contemporary scientists and fortune-seekers from Germany. Many have made New Zealand their new home. Viewers experience whale researchers working off the coast, see gold prospectors working in cold river waters, learn about the work of sheep farmers and gain exciting insights into the work of geologists and environmentalists. Over the course of several months, authors Christopher Gerisch and Kai Searing travelled back and forth to New Zealand.
In total, they and their film crews spent ten weeks on the other side of the world. The diverse landscapes repeatedly presented the crew with great challenges. The film crew camped for days on a remote gold rush river, climbed the icebergs of New Zealand’s glaciers in constant rain and sailed through storms in the Bay of Islands in a sailboat. In the tradition of Siberian Adventure and Alaskan Adventure, the two-part series offers a comprehensive look at New Zealand: rich in facts and exciting, told with beautiful images. (Text: ZDF)
It was German scientists like Julius von Haast who discovered New Zealand in the early 19th century. “The Land of the Long White Cloud,” as the Maori called their homeland, was largely unexplored. Von Haast traveled the country with a passion. He discovered mountains, rivers, extinct giant birds and founded New Zealand’s first museum. Alongside the scientists came fortune hunters. They left the frontier and Europe to start a new life on the other side of the world.
Men like Bendix Hallenstein. He built a textile empire and was appointed mayor of Queenstown. To this day, dozens of branches in New Zealand bear his name. The island kingdom in the South Pacific remains a dream destination for many today. Europeans. The North Island is dominated by long sandy beaches, hills and rugged volcanoes. The South Island, on the other hand, is dominated by the New Zealand Alps, a massive mountain range from which massive glaciers extend into the valley. There they encounter dense, temperate rainforests.
This diverse landscape is unparalleled anywhere in the world, and it inspires contemporary scientists and fortune-seekers from Germany. Many have made New Zealand their new home. Viewers experience whale researchers working off the coast, see gold prospectors working in cold river waters, learn about the work of sheep farmers and gain exciting insights into the work of geologists and environmentalists. Over the course of several months, authors Christopher Gerisch and Kai Searing travelled back and forth to New Zealand.
In total, they and their film crews spent ten weeks on the other side of the world. The diverse landscapes repeatedly presented the crew with great challenges. The film crew camped for days on a remote gold rush river, climbed the icebergs of New Zealand’s glaciers in constant rain and sailed through storms in the Bay of Islands in a sailboat. In the tradition of Siberian Adventure and Alaskan Adventure, the two-part series offers a comprehensive look at New Zealand: rich in facts and exciting, told with beautiful images. (Text: ZDF)
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