New Zealand is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean about 2,000 km from the southern coast of Australia and also lies relatively close to the Antarctic Region. New Zealand is a country with varied habitats from coastal estuaries and wetlands to alpine regions, temperate rainforests and offshore islands and this in turn has created a high diversity of birds including around 100 endemic birds. Bird-Photo-Tours ASIA is the specialist in bird photography tours throughout Asia and Oceania and this subantarctic cruise in search of close photographic encounters with seabirds provides quite literally a once-in-a-lifetime adventure photographing albatrosses, petrels, penguins and many other seabirds in one of the most outstanding locations in Oceania.