New Zealand Post issues on March 6, 2000 four new values in the scenic definitives series. Each of the four stamps depicts a spectacular location around coastline with its border links to that area's distinctive flora and fauna. They are:

$1.00, The Otago Peninsula, featuring the Taiaroa Head lighthouse whose signals direct ships up to 32 kilometres away, with the red-billed gull of Taiaroa Head dresses its border.

$1.10, The Kaikoura Coast, set against the awe-inspiring, snow-capped Seaward Kaikoura Range. The seals of Kaikoura Coast dresses its border.

$2.00, Great Barrier Island. It's the first place in New Zealand to use "airmail" postage, when pigeons carried mail to the mainland. The border features the native toi toi of Great Barrier Island.

$3.00, Cape Kidnappers in Hawke's Bay. As it's the home to one of the world's two known mainland gannet colonies –  large, powerful seabirds known for their plummeting 145 kilometre-per-hour dives for fish, the bird occupied the stamp's border.

The stamps are complement to the existing Scenic Series, ranged from 5c to 90c. Three stamps, the $1.00, $2.00 and $3.00 will be used to eplace the $1.00, $2.00 and $3.00 Butterflies stamps issued in 1991. The new introduced $1.10 definitive reflects the international postage rate for sending postcards or aerogrammes from New Zealand to anywhere in the world, or medium sized letters via International Air to Australia and the South Pacific which was came into effect in 1999.

The four stamps are issued in gummed sheet, and the $1.10 also goes in Scenic International Air Self-adhesive Booklet of 5.

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