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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.

  • New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils

    Blue Lake, St Bathans – the most biodiverse Miocene fossil plant locality

    by Mike Pole March 13, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 13, 2016

    The biodiversity of Blue Lake, at St Bathans, New Zealand, is precisely zero. It is an artificial lake partly filling a hole …

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    Giant Pea Pod fossils in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016

    Pea pod fossils in New Zealand were first found by Aline Holden, a pioneer of New Zealand plant fossil research. She found …

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    Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016

    In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …

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  • Australian EcologyClimate

    Tim Flannery and Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-puck

    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016

    Are Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …

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  • Cheap Eats Nanjing

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 14 – All You Can Eat – and Drink!

    by Mike Pole February 18, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 18, 2016

    Not really one of the cheapest – by local standards, but hear me out….. This place is called Jinfushan, it’s an all …

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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay

    by Mike Pole February 15, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 15, 2016

    If you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …

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  • ForestsTravelTravel stories

    The Honey Trees of Kalimantan

    by Mike Pole February 12, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 12, 2016

    I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …

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  • History/ArchaeologyTravel

    Turkey/Armenia: Ani – capital on the wrong side of a border

    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016

    I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …

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  • Cheap Eats Nanjing

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 13 – Savoury Pancakes

    by Mike Pole February 2, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 2, 2016

    This place is part of a chain called Huiwei. I first came across them elsewhere in Nanjing and for a couple of …

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    Mongolia – Nights under the nine stars of the Pleiades

    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016

    Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

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  • About me
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    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
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    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
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    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
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    • Australia
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    • Bosnia
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