UARS MLS GW observations at ~38 km show significant enhancement in wave activities over New Zealand during June-August of 1992-1994. Slightly north of the stratospheric jetstream, New Zealand often is exposed to the condition of a strong background wind in the stratosphere as the vortex is tilted away from the pole. The strong background winds are essential for gravity waves propagating in the middle atmosphere. These maps show MLS ch-3 variances averaged from the three years of the south-looking limb-scan observations during June-August for descending and ascending orbits. The channel 3 data are averaged into 3^ox10^o latitude x longitude bins with no smoothing applied to the maps so that geographical variability may be preserved. There are quite differences in the ascending and descending observations with the larger amplitudes in the descending map, which is expected for waves mostly propagating westward. The GW variances associated with the jetstream are also evident but mainly southward of 50^oS.