Alexandra lies at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers. The usual translation of the Maori word ‘Manuherikia’ is that it means …
Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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Archaeology, History & Culture
(Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIt 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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A few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Globalisation in the Jurassic – the fossil fern Coniopteris in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the plant fossils that turns up in New Zealand’s Jurassic rocks is a delicate-looking fern frond called Coniopteris (Arber, 1917; …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the early 1980s when I was working on the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, near the bottom end of New Zealand’s …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Thinking Outside the Triangle – Polynesian Origins
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Almost a Holocaust – the latest Triassic, Pollock Road, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleWhat a difference nearly thirty years makes. In 1986 the Prof of Geology at Otago University showed me some recently collected plant …
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A couple of years ago I re-kitted and headed off from Wanaka for an extended walk in the Matukituki region. There was …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Cabin Fever and Paleocene leaf fossils in the Haast
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleEaster, 1971. The family is holed-up in a tiny home-made caravan at Cole Creek, in New Zealand’s forest-clad South Westland just north …
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New Zealand Geology
The Highlands Motorsport Park ‘Jurassic Forest Safari’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleGrowing up in Alexandra it inconceivable that Cromwell might somehow overtake Alex. Alexandra was The Hub. Cromwell was the little place you …
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