The biodiversity of Blue Lake, at St Bathans, New Zealand, is precisely zero. It is an artificial lake partly filling a hole …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Australian Grasstrees – ancient registrars of fire
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn Australia there are trees that look like inside-out chimneys. Strong but sensitive – a fungal attack can leave them as a …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSometime in the 1980s my Prof, ‘JDC’ (Doug Campbell of the Otago University), showed me a box of spectacular leaf fossils that …
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Autobiography & Travel
Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleRoni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …
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Autobiography & Travel
Chromite and Pine Forests – the closest I’ll ever get to the Old Syria
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOn March 21, 2011 I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey. Me and Erol, my indispensable …
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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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Kai Point Coal Mine – Late Cretaceous vegetation treasure-trove
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe lowlands south of Dunedin (New Zealand), used to be almost impassable wetlands. The local Maoris were incredulous when the first Western …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Discovering the ‘Bridge of Stone’ – the ancient route over the Kawarau River, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PolePart way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori as ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …
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