New Zealand is made up of two main islands - the North Island and the slightly larger South Island. Both of these islands feature a range of beautiful black sand beaches that are ideal for beachgoers of all kinds. Here are some of the best beaches to explore: South Island: Puponga Beach, Farewell Spit. Kahurangi National Park, West Coast.. On the South Island's West Coast, black sand beaches such as this have successfully been mined for gold. The sands also contain other heavy minerals eroded from the Southern Alps and concentrated on beaches through wave action. In the North Island the black sands are derived from volcanic rocks and dominate the 750 km of shoreline between.

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Piha is New Zealand's most famous surf beach. Situated on the west coast of the North Island, 40 kms from the city of Auckland, this black iron-sand beach has a reputation for awesome surf which rolls in over the Tasman Sea. When Uncle Toby's Iron Man contest was held at Piha in 1997, canoes were snapped in two and they've never come back.. Reveal New Zealand Ep 10 — We travel to Taranaki and the black sand beaches of NZ, hunting out the Three Sisters, Elephant Rock and New Plymouth ⬇ More Below.