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New Zealand Geographic Trust grantee Shaun Quincey is attempting to become the first to row solo from Australia to New Zealand.
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Mass-planted in the 1950s to combat erosion, Pinus contorta, is spreading throughout New Zealand. Agencies are using a heady brew of choppers and chainsaws to control it.
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Drifting at any depth in all the world’s oceans, these creatures
range from an Arctic species with a bell the size of a car,
to a venomous microscopic Australian.
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Modern agriculture’s rhythms are urgent, its scale corporate. Driving across the Canterbury plains today there are futuristic grain research stations, slick billboards promoting yield-boosting technologies, and the now-ubiquitous centre-pivot irrigators that extend 500 metres like pylons brought to earth.
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The modern circus is a far cry from the early ‘carnie’ days of animals and anatomic
anomalies, but graduates of Canterbury Polytech’s CircoArts course still revel in it’s magic.
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A Chinese immigrant, Chew Chong, pioneered the Taranaki dairy industry.
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SPECIAL EDUCATION OFFER: Our NZ Music story from issue 83 which is accompanied by a double CD containing the music of New Zealand's finest composers, is now available at a very special price for schools, teachers and students. Click here for details. |
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NZ Geographic, the journal of New Zealand, was founded in 1989 by John Woods and Kennedy Warne. It was conceived as new zealand's own geographic magazine —a publication that would do for what national has done the rest of world. |
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