9. Wainui Beach, Gisborne-Near the city of Gisborne, Wainui Beach is surrounded by reserves and protected land. It's a huge beach, with everything you could possibly need for a day by the ocean -- car parks, idyllic picnic spots, walking and jogging tracks, secluded spaces for sunbathing and easy put-ins for boats. The beach is popular with local surfers, as well as wedding parties. 10. Ninety Mile Beach, Northland-While the name Ninety Mile Beach is actually a misnomer (it's really only 55 miles long, and New Zealanders use kilometers rather than miles), it is justly a top tourist destination for its staggering beauty. With sand dunes reminiscent of a desert landscape, it stretches from just west of Kaitaia right to Cape Reinga, the northernmost tip of New Zealand. Golden sands and impressive breakers alongside the magical Aupouri Forest make this perhaps the most famous beach in New Zealand -- it's certainly the biggest.
confined to the banks of the Thames Estuary, which it is not". Also Maidment (1994) expresses his negative attitude to the term: "... Estuary English, if it exists at all, is not only spoken on or near the Thames estuary. There is no real evidence that it even originated there. ... the accent of younger speakers in Milton Keynes which is a new city quite a long way from the Thames Estuary has many of the features claimed for EE". Further, Crystal (1995) calls `Estuary English' "something of a misnomer, for the influence of London speech has for sometime been evident well beyond the Thames estuary, notably in the Oxford-Cambridge-London triangle (p.50) and in the area to the south and east of London as far as the coast." Moore (p.c.), UK coordinator of the European Network of Innovative 10 Schools, best describes the drawbacks of the term `EE': The name is neither helpful nor accurate. Because of a superficial resemblance of