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Mike Pole

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    The Hollow Tree Stumps at Curio Bay

    by Mike Pole May 21, 2025
    by Mike Pole May 21, 2025

    A hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …

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  • History/Archaeology

    Geography and the Bronze Age Battle at Tollense, Germany

    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025
    by Mike Pole April 19, 2025

    One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

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  • Forests

    Was there a Forest before Central Otago’s Kowhai Forest?

    by Mike Pole March 10, 2025
    by Mike Pole March 10, 2025

    When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …

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  • Forests

    Dunedin’s Saddlebacks/Tieke and Yellowheads/Mopua

    by Mike Pole March 9, 2025
    by Mike Pole March 9, 2025

    Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …

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  • Forests

    Green Island Bush – Divide and Conquer

    by Mike Pole March 7, 2025
    by Mike Pole March 7, 2025

    Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …

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  • Forests

    The Lost Ecosystem of the Leith Swamp Forest, Dunedin

    by Mike Pole March 6, 2025
    by Mike Pole March 6, 2025

    One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …

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  • Current Events

    Ten Years Trapped in Mongolia – Time to get Mo Munshi home to Australia

    by Mike Pole March 4, 2025
    by Mike Pole March 4, 2025

    In 2007, I started work in Mongolia as a geologist with the company, Gobi Coal and Energy Limited. The Chairman was Mohammed …

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  • New Zealand History

    The Ancient Footpath from Otepoti-Dunedin to Moeraki

    by Mike Pole February 27, 2025
    by Mike Pole February 27, 2025

    How old is the oldest cultural feature on Aotearoa-New Zealand? Imagine being around when the only way to get anywhere was to …

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  • Ukraine: War and Wonders

    Ukraine: War and Wonders – Cats and Dogs.

    by Mike Pole February 24, 2025
    by Mike Pole February 24, 2025

    Today is the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On that day, pandemonium struck. People fled with a …

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  • Ukraine: War and Wonders

    Ukraine: War and Wonders – The Dnipro – Ukraine’s ‘National River’

    by Mike Pole February 20, 2025
    by Mike Pole February 20, 2025

    Rivers, big rivers. They can be political borders – think of the Rhine – when it marked the ‘civilised’ Roman Empire to …

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  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
    • Travel
    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
    • History/Archaeology
    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
    • Canary Island
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey
    • Estonia
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Mongolia
    • Kazakhstan
    • Russia
    • Uganda
    • New Zealand
    • India
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