When I was growing up in Central Otago (New Zealand) graywacke was a bane of my life, and certainly of my Dad’s …

Growing up in Alexandra (Central Otago, New Zealand) in the early 1970s it was the family thing to go ice skating on …

New Zealanders are becoming aware of a new threat to their native forests – as if logging, burning, opossums, deer, ferrets, cats, …

Anyone who knows anything about New Zealand geology will know that it was once ‘part of Gondwana’. This is true, but how …

Most Australians and many tourists will be aware of a prominent topographic feature not too far from the east coast. For example, …

Back in the days when Australia had just seven veterans left from the First World War, I made an effort to meet …

Late 1984, I was booted out of Denmark and hit the next ferry to Puttgarden  (this was a condition of the local …