Moeraki Boulders
Natural Monument
· South Island
The Moeraki Boulders are spherical stones on Koekohe Beach, a beach on New Zealand's South Island. In fact, the grey coloured spheres are not stones: they were created a long time ago by a cementation process that took place deep in the seabed. The age of the Moeraki Boulders, which have a diameter from 0.5 m to over 2 m, is estimated at about 5 million years. Other of these formations can be found on a coast further south in New Zealand and similar spheres can also be found on other continents, such as America.

Author
Nadine Greiter
Update: August 20, 2019
Getting there
Via State Highway 1 and Moeraki Boulders Road to Koekohe BeachParking
Public parking at the end of Moeraki Boulders RoadCoordinates
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-45.350170, 170.828433
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45°21'00.6"S 170°49'42.4"E
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59G 486560 4978134
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