The meaning of mana - New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe meaning of mana. There are more cautionary notes in Māoridom dealing with mana than you could shake the proverbial stick at. It is a source of both personal and collective strength, pride and identity. Mishandled, it becomes the bearer of shame, ridicule and embarrassment. If mana allows us to walk tall, then it also casts a long shadow ...
Kea: the feisty parrot - New Zealand Geographic
WEBKea Have been enchanting and infuriating visitors to the mountains since the first explorers’ boots scrunched through the scree. Hear Charlie Douglas, quoted in John Pascoe’s Mr Explorer Douglas: “I was sitting sketching with my back against a rock.As is usual when finished, I held it at arm’s length to admire my handiwork, when in that mountain solitude I was startled by a ...
Inside the Land March - New Zealand Geographic
WEBTe Rōpū o te Matakite sets out from Te Hāpua on September 14, 1975. Te Hāpua was the birthplace of then-Minister of Māori Affairs Matiu Rata. The proposed march united a wide cross-section of urban and rural Māori, but support was not universal. Rata felt it would undermine his efforts from within the government, and sought to head it off.
What went wrong and what are we doing about it? - New Zealand …
WEBSix years and one month to the day after landing at Paihia in the Bay of Islands William Colenso finished a rush job. He was a printer, and in the early evening of January 30, 1840, he completed the last of a hundred invitations asking Northland chiefs to come to Mr and Mrs Busby’s house the next week to meet the “chief of the Queen”, who had arrived from Sydney to be “a governor for ...
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird
WEBThe Moa were. perhaps the most unusual family of birds that ever lived. Some boasted legs built like an elephant, others laid eggs the size of rugby balls, and the giant moa was the tallest bird ever to walk the planet. They evolved in isolation over millions of years, roaming the forests of New Zealand, but were ill-prepared for humans.
Tuatara - A survivor from the dinosaur age - New Zealand …
WEBFor tuatara are the great survivors in New Zealand. Their ancestors, the first sphenodontidans (a name meaning ‘wedge tooth’), shared virtually all continents with dinosaurs. They appear as fossils from North America, Europe, England and Africa, from 225 million years ago until about 120 million years ago.
Volcanic Auckland - New Zealand Geographic
WEBI am standing at the edge of a volcanic crater, just a careless step away from plunging fifty metres into a lake of incandescent orange lava that boils and hisses. The crater punctures the top of Pu`u 0`o, a cone that sits like a boil on the flanks of its great volcanic parent, Kilauea, on the Big Island of Hawaii. From 1983 to 1986 Pint 0`o was the site of thundering lava fountains which ...
Ferns: the glory of the forest - New Zealand Geographic
WEBIn few of the world's temperate forests do ferns assume the luxuriance and dominance that they achieve in the damper portions of the New Zealand bush. Fronds decorate every tree-trunk and choke the floor of the forest, while stands of huge tree ferns tower over lesser trees. Little wonder that the fern frond has become a major symbol of the country in …
Ta Moko - New Zealand Geographic
WEBBy the time Captain James Cook arrived, Ta Moko was an established and distinctive art form, frequently admired by early Europeans. Moko formed an important part of the visual culture and identity of Maori, and was a rite of passage for both men and women. It was also a source of identity; the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding ...
What happened on Whakaari? - New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe eruption started at 9.35pm, with big heaves inside the crater. At 10.03pm, it began pelting the walking track with projectiles, but withheld its final energy until 10.11pm when, with a whoomph, it sent the plume sky-high.A scalding current of steam and debris, coloured green by the hydrothermally altered rock it contained, rolled right over the walking track at 11 metres per second, and ...