Make New Zealand the next world update!

Just mulling over the idea of an potential Oceania world update in the future and thought I’d make a list of POI suggestions for NZ should the Asobo devs ever happen to come across this thread:

  • Cape Reinga lighthouse and watermask showing meeting of Tasman Sea & Pacific Ocean
  • Bay of Islands (watermask and Hole in the Rock formation)
  • 90 mile beach (make it landable)
  • Marsden Point refinery
  • Whangarei Harbor watermask
  • Auckland Harbor Bridge
  • Skytower, ANZ Tower, PWC Tower skyscrapers (Auckland CBD)
  • Mount Eden and One Tree Hill volcanos
  • Port of Auckland with Mechanics Bay heliport
  • Eden Park rugby stadium
  • Westhaven Marina and other marinas around Auckland area
  • Updated missing/cloudy ground textures for Great Barrier and Waiheke Islands
  • Tauranga harbor water mask
  • Port of Tauranga and update missing ground textures around Mt Maunganui and Whakatane
  • Mt Maunganui high rises
  • SpaceX rocket launch complex, Mahia
  • Mt Ruapehu Chateau
  • WELLYWOOD sign, Miramar
  • Wellington CBD (Beehive, Caketin stadium, Te Papa)
  • Wellington Port & Interislander ferry terminal
  • Marlborough Sounds water masking
  • Whales around Kaikoura peninsula
  • Christchurch CBD post earthquake
  • New Brighton pier, Christchurch
  • Akarora lighthouse
  • Otira viaduct
  • Church of the Good Shepard & Mt John Observertory, Tekapo
  • Hermitage Hotel, Mt Cook
  • Lanarch Castle, Dunedin
  • Forsyth Barr stadium, Dunedin
  • Dunedin railway station
  • Catlin coast rock formations
  • Milford Sound & Doubtful Sound updated DEM
  • Bungee bridge Queenstown
  • Queenstown cable car
  • TSS Earnslaw steamship on Lake Wakatipu
  • Tiwai Point Aluminum Smelter
  • Bluff lighthouse

Potential interesting airports to focus on:

  • NZGB Great Barrier
  • NZAP Taupo
  • NZGS Gisborne (with railway track crossing runway)
  • NZSO Marlborough Sounds (float plane base)
  • NZKI Kaikoura
  • NZMC Mount Cook
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