In 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Fossil Palm Swamps of Central Otago, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the endearing memories I have during my PhD was working on the banks above the Kawarau River near Cromwell (Central …
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In the old days in New Zealand, you needed to add the right prefix to telephone numbers to ring the adjacent villages. Our …
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At Ship Creek, just a few kilometers north of Haast, in South Westland, New Zealand, there is a wonderful boardwalk though an …
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The first time I came to Brisbane in the hot part of the year – I couldn’t believe how anyone could survive …