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    Dunedin’s Ghost-Forests in 1901

    by Mike Pole February 10, 2025
    by Mike Pole February 10, 2025

    When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …

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    The Lost Bush of South Dunedin

    by Mike Pole December 13, 2024
    by Mike Pole December 13, 2024

    We owe so much of what we know of early Dunedin to just a few artists! Up till 1850, there’s only a …

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    Deans Bush–Pūtaringamotu and the Mystery of the Missing Tree Ferns

    by Mike Pole September 22, 2024
    by Mike Pole September 22, 2024

    Tree ferns are indicators of a consistently pretty wet climate. In New Zealand-Aotearoa, if you look closely (and not too closely if …

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    I Meet a Famous Ghost — New Zealand’s Vulcan Hotel

    by Mike Pole August 26, 2024
    by Mike Pole August 26, 2024

    The Ghost of a young prostitute Locals know that Room 1 of the old Vulcan Hotel, in the tiny village (permanent population …

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    The Immolation of Waimate Bush, Canterbury, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole July 24, 2024
    by Mike Pole July 24, 2024

    In the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …

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    The Lost Taieri/Taiari Bush, near Dunedin, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole June 6, 2024
    by Mike Pole June 6, 2024

    Leads to New Zealand’s  ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …

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    My Submission on the proposed Fast Track Approvals Bill

    by Mike Pole April 16, 2024
    by Mike Pole April 16, 2024

    My Submission I thank the Environment Select Committee for the opportunity to make a submission on the Fast-track Approvals Bill – at …

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    A Crimean Gothic Woman from the Seventh Century

    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024
    by Mike Pole February 29, 2024

    Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …

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  • New Zealand History

    Moa ate kōwhai

    by Mike Pole January 29, 2024
    by Mike Pole January 29, 2024

    A little over 700 years ago, humans finally discovered the last habitable place on Earth, Aotearoa-New Zealand (Wilmshurst et al., 2011; Mulrooney …

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    The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia

    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 17, 2023

    In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …

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