The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean Great Ride – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the seismic-shifting saga of Zealandia, Earth's "lost" continent, writes Sydney-based freelance journalist Tracey Croke
A young and restless country in earth's development story, New Zealand lies along an exceptionally fractious crack in the planet's crust, writes Tracey on BBC Travel's post.
Tectonically speaking, the landmass has been through a lot of upheaval in the (relatively short) 83 million years since it split from the Gondwana supercontinent to be on its own plate. And now she is with her husband and two friends on New Zealand's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean (A2O) – that will take them through the heart of this seismic-shifting saga.
