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Wikipedia: The Alpine Fault is a geological fault, known as a right-lateral strike-slip fault, that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island. It forms a transform boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate. Earthquakes along the fault, and the associated earth movements, have formed the Southern Alps.
![[This map, coloured by elevation, shows how the Alpine Fault affects the topography of the South Island's West Coast]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Alpine_Fault_SRTM_s.jpg "This map, coloured by elevation, shows how the Alpine Fault affects the topography of the South Island's West Coast")
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![[Snow delineates the escarpment formed by the Alpine Fault along the Southern Alps' northwest edge, near the South...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/South_Island_blizzard_2003_s.jpg "Snow delineates the escarpment formed by the Alpine Fault along the Southern Alps' northwest edge, near the South...")
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