The Terminal - John's Park

A very beautiful postcard from New Zealand, showing the great milky way! The view is from the “Aoraki-Mackenzie Dark Sky Reserve”. It is a gold-rated dark sky reserve, in recognition of the quality of the almost light-pollution-free skies of the Mackenzie Basin. A dark-sky preserve is an area, usually surrounding a park or observatory, that is kept free of artificial light pollution. The purpose of a dark-sky preserve is generally to promote astronomy. The building next to the milky way is called “The Church of the Good Shepherd”.