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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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    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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    A Short Walk in the Lamington Kush – The Stintson plane wreck, Australia

    by Mike Pole September 29, 2018
    by Mike Pole September 29, 2018

    “If I had a camera I could take a photo and show guests what my uncle’s legs looked like after he found …

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    Australia’s Bunya Mountains and Alternate World Histories

    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018
    by Mike Pole August 26, 2018

    Could the Bunya Mountains be the one place to turn your preconceptions of human nature on its head? *** I recently finished …

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    Travelling with Landscape-Awareness

    by Mike Pole February 11, 2018
    by Mike Pole February 11, 2018

    Over ten years ago I taught visiting American classes at the University of Queensland. The itinerary of one lucky class was to …

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    Making a Bee-line to the Republic of Adygea, Russia

    by Mike Pole December 9, 2017
    by Mike Pole December 9, 2017

    Honey, honey, honey – it seemed Adygea oozed the stuff. Everywhere we looked it seemed someone had set up a road-side stall …

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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    How Tall were the trees in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?

    by Mike Pole May 6, 2017
    by Mike Pole May 6, 2017

    At Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …

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    When Frequent-Flying Becomes Insane-Flying

    by Mike Pole April 30, 2017
    by Mike Pole April 30, 2017

    I loved my Singapore Airlines ‘Elite Gold’ card. Suddenly, International airports transitioned from being places where food and drink were wildly overpriced, …

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