Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing - New Zealand Geographic
WEBSāmoan independence led to a revival of tā tatau, and in the 1960s and 1970s, Sāmoans arriving in New Zealand in search of work introduced it to this country. As it spread beyond its island shores, it adapted to novel conditions by harnessing new materials. Kerosene soot or Indian ink was substituted for the traditional burned candlenut-soot ...
New Zealand Geographic
WEBOff the warming northeastern coasts of New Zealand, a spiky problem is snowballing. Centrostephanus rodgersii, the longspined sea urchin, is a native species, but the comparatively balmy winters underwater are supercharging its reproduction. On top of that, we’ve eaten too many of its probable key predators—big crays.
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.
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 ...
Hooker Valley | New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe Hooker Valley is a fine walk into the heart of Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, with gorges, glaciers, lakes and (in season) the Mount Cook lily to see. The track starts from the White Horse camping area and passes the original site of the Hermitage and an alpine memorial. The track zig-zags down to the first swingbridge across the milky ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Farewell to the Clutha - New Zealand Geographic
WEBNew Zealand’s largest river by volume (Waikato is the longest), the Clutha cascades 338km from its source high in the Southern Alps to the sea at Balclutha. The river first gave of its power for electricity in 1956, the year the Roxburgh dam was commissioned. A decade later it became known that further dams were planned.
Bastion Point flashpoint - New Zealand Geographic
WEBOn May 25, 1978, the New Zealand government sent in hundreds of police and army officers to evict protestors at Bastion Point, in what was the largest internal mobilisation in New Zealand’s history.The Orakei Action Group, led by Joe Hawke, had begun occupation of Bastion Point in January 1977. This was after the government announced […]