Growing up in Alexandra (Central Otago, New Zealand) in the early 1970s it was the family thing to go ice skating on …
Monthly Archives
April 2014
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Attack of the Forest-Killing Fungi (Kauri and the Elm Decline)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …
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Anyone who knows anything about New Zealand geology will know that it was once ‘part of Gondwana’. This is true, but how …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Continental Déjà Vu – the Great Escarpments (Australia, Brazil, South Africa)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleMost Australians and many tourists will be aware of a prominent topographic feature not too far from the east coast. For example, …
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Back in the days when Australia had just seven veterans left from the First World War, I made an effort to meet …
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Late 1984, I was booted out of Denmark and hit the next ferry to Puttgarden (this was a condition of the local …