Qualla: Slope Point https://qualla.com/slope-point en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/8/n/slope-point-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Slope Point https://qualla.com/slope-point Slope Point: Introduction https://qualla.com/slope-point/ Photo credit Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany, CC BY 3.0. The trees give it away before the signpost does. Approaching Slope Point on foot across open farmland, you notice the macrocarpa groves leaning hard to the north, their trunks and branches bent at violent angles as if recoiling from something behind them. They are. Antarctic winds travel over 3,200 kilometres of unbroken ocean before hitting this headland, the southernmost point of New Zealand's South Island, and they arrive with a force that has permanently reshaped every tree that tried to grow here. Farmers planted these groves to shelter their sheep. The wind turned them into sculptures.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/8/n/slope-point-wp/pz8n-slope-point-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Slope Point: The End of the Land https://qualla.com/slope-point/ Photo credit Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Slope Point sits at approximately 46.67°S, 169.00°E, on the southwestern edge of the Catlins near Toetoes Bay, 24 kilometres south of the small settlement of Waikawa and 70 kilometres east of Invercargill. There is no road to it. A 20-minute walk across sheep paddocks, following ...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/8/n/slope-point-wp/pz8n-slope-point-the-end-of-the-land.mp3 0:06 2 full Slope Point: Shaped by the Roaring Forties https://qualla.com/slope-point/ Photo credit Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The wind at Slope Point is not occasional weather. It is the defining characteristic of the place. The prevailing westerlies and southerlies that rake across this latitude, part of the band of fierce winds known as the Roaring Forties, arrive without the interruption of any landm...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/8/n/slope-point-wp/pz8n-slope-point-shaped-by-the-roaring-forties.mp3 0:06 3 full Slope Point: A Farmer's Boundary https://qualla.com/slope-point/ Photo credit Karora, Public domain. For all its geographic significance, Slope Point is working farmland. The headland belongs to a sheep station, and access is closed during lambing season from September through November. The yellow markers that guide walkers across the paddock are a courtesy, not a formal trail, ...

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