The New Zealand coastline is renown for its rugged beauty, encompassing archways and boulders and golden beaches, to surfing dolphins and on-shore penguins and other coastal wonders.

Classic New Zealand icons, from sheep to kiwi fruit to kina to koru to baches to the cheeky kea to the Ranfurly Shield to All-Blacks flags to painted rental vans and more! For plenty more sheep photographs, please be sure to check out the New Zealand sheep and lamb gallery.

A collection of New Zealand's many waterfalls and gin-clear rivers, winding through lush forests to low valleys to high mountain passes.

From the early 1980s, when NZ was home to over 70 million sheep, the population has declined to around 39 million in 2008. This means the oft-quoted statistic, that NZ has 20 sheep for each human, is wrong! Nowadays it's only about 9 to 1. This decline hasn't stopped NZ from cornering 50% of all international trade in sheepmeat.

Graphic designers looking for any New Zealand-themed patterns and textures and abstracts to manipulate? All pictures in this file are photographed in New Zealand.

Action photography from New Zealand, including images and photos and pictures of surfing to motocross to supercross to paragliding to sheepdog agility trials to Southland rodeo to dirtbiking to greyhound racing!

Freestyle Motocross stunts at Farm Jam 2016, Southland, New Zealand. Tsunamis, tail whips, backflips, heel-clickers, headstands, and big air!

Vintage aircraft from WWII and other eras, beautifully restored and flown at Warbirds over Wanaka 2016, Central Otago, New Zealand

Eight seconds of fame at the southern most rodeo in the world, in Invercargill, New Zealand! Ride da bull, barrel racing, bucking broncs and rope ties, and their fearless riders.

Dog agility photos from Invercargill, New Zealand. This gallery is full of photogenic dogs in their element--jumping, running, weaving, following their owners through a variety of obstacles in the agility course. For many more images of these dogs in competition, please go back to the original Dog Agility galleries organized by heat and time.