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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    Could New Zealand’s Kahikatea Grow in Australia?

    by Mike Pole January 23, 2026
    by Mike Pole January 23, 2026

    Travelling from Sydney up to Brisbane, through the lowlands, across the wetlands, crossing rivers, seeing tree ferns – I can’t help thinking …

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    Are the consequences of a fire in Tasmania 3,600 years ago, still present?

    by Mike Pole December 10, 2025
    by Mike Pole December 10, 2025

    Sitting a little above the more famous lake of Cradle Mountain National Park , Tasmamia – Dove Lake, is Wombat Pool. Some …

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  • Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate

    The Jurassic fossil soils of Curio Bay, and Fortrose-Otara, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2025
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2025

    Soils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …

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    The Last Tree in Papanui Bush. And that last palm tree on Easter Island

    by Mike Pole September 29, 2025
    by Mike Pole September 29, 2025

    “What did the kiwi bloke say while cutting down the last tree in Papanui Bush?” Here, I’m just re-phrasing of the question …

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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    Dunedin’s Ghost-Forests in 1901

    by Mike Pole February 10, 2025
    by Mike Pole February 10, 2025

    When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …

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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    The Lost Bush of South Dunedin

    by Mike Pole December 13, 2024
    by Mike Pole December 13, 2024

    We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …

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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    The Immolation of Waimate Bush, Canterbury, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole July 24, 2024
    by Mike Pole July 24, 2024

    In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …

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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    The Lost Taieri/Taiari Bush, near Dunedin, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole June 6, 2024
    by Mike Pole June 6, 2024

    Leads to New Zealand’s  ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …

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  • Autobiography & Travel

    A Short Walk in the Lamington Kush – The Stintson plane wreck, Australia

    by Mike Pole September 29, 2018
    by Mike Pole September 29, 2018

    “If I had a camera I could take a photo and show guests what my uncle’s legs looked like after he found …

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    Australia’s Bunya Mountains and Alternate World Histories

    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018
    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018

    Could the Bunya Mountains be the one place to turn your preconceptions of human nature on its head? *** I recently finished …

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