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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.

  • Cheap Eats Nanjing

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 3 – Steamed Dumplings

    by Mike Pole December 14, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 14, 2015

    For a cheap, quick lunch, three of these steamed dumplings do me nicely. So far I just point to the display ones …

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    Cheap Eats Nanjing 2 – Biangbiang Noodles

    by Mike Pole December 13, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 13, 2015

    I had to warm a little to this place – its signature dish, ‘Biangbiang Noodles’, means you are trying to eat (with …

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  • Travel

    West Timor – Mine of Women and the Palm Wine Bomb

    by Mike Pole December 12, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 12, 2015

    West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why …

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  • Cheap Eats Nanjing

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 1 – Korean Stone Pot

    by Mike Pole December 10, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 10, 2015

    The first of a series showing where I eat in Nanjing. May be useful to other ex pats or travelers here. I …

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  • Australian EcologyFireForests

    Australian Grasstrees – ancient registrars of fire

    by Mike Pole December 4, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 4, 2015

    In Australia there are trees that look like inside-out chimneys. Strong but sensitive – a fungal attack can leave them as a …

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  • New Zealand GeologyNew Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils

    Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole November 27, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 27, 2015

    Sometime in the 1980s my Prof, ‘JDC’ (Doug Campbell of the Otago University), showed me a box of spectacular leaf fossils that …

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  • Travel

    Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police

    by Mike Pole November 22, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 22, 2015

    Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …

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  • GeologyTravel

    Chromite and Pine Forests – the closest I’ll ever get to the Old Syria

    by Mike Pole November 18, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 18, 2015

    On March 21, 2011  I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey.  Me and Erol, my indispensable …

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  • New Zealand Geology

    The Giant ‘Lake Manuherikia’ – an extinct lake from the New Zealand Miocene

    by Mike Pole October 17, 2015
    by Mike Pole October 17, 2015

    Alexandra lies at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers. The usual translation of the Maori word ‘Manuherikia’ is that it means …

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    (Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig

    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015
    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015

    It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …

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  • Home
  • About me
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  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
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    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
    • History/Archaeology
    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
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