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Waveform Audio File Format  |  1992-07-25  |  22.5 MB  |  1 channel  |  22,050 sample rate  |  17 minutes, 48 seconds
Transcription: If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it 10,000 miles round the world and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time because it looks very much as if someone has already done it. Fjordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. It is magnificent. It is awe-inspiring. The land is ...