Tekapo asks UN to protect night sky

Published: 7:53PM Thursday December 07, 2006 Source: One News

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The town of Tekapo has applied to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation to have its skies declared a World Heritage park.

The area in and around the MacKenzie Country town is largely undeveloped and the view from its observatory boasts some of the clearest star-gazing skies in the country.

Now the town wants to turn the area into the very first UNESCO World Heritage park of the night sky.

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