campaign to increase public awareness, gain additional knowledge and increase habitat protection for what is arguably the world's rarest penguin. Known in Maori as the Hoiho, or "noise-shouter", the yellow-eyed penguin grows to about 60cm and is the largest of New Zealand's five native ...
Brown vuagnatite (CaAlSiO4(OH)) is reported from a vein cutting a rodingite dike in the Livingstone Mountains, Southland. Microprobe analyses indicate that the colouring is due to small amounts of Fe and Ti in the mineral. Colourless vuagnatite occurs as a rock-forming mineral in a ...
given transfusions of vigour by New Zealand’s ethnic migrations. First came the Maori. “League gained huge impetus from the Maori in the 1930s as they drifted into large towns and cities and could form their own clubs like Manakau in Auckland,” says Wood. ...
Ariki is the world’s most successful designer/manufacturer ofPaua shell jewellery(in American English: paua shell jewelry). It is also one of the largestNew Zealand jewellerymanufacturers. The name “Ariki” is from the Maori language and means “The Chief”. ...
Frost is delighted to introduce the first of our features from Geni Ray Johnston, who lives in Taupo, New Zealand and is a member of Live Poets. Along the old Coach Road off the Napier-Taupo Highway is a little piece of Paradise, Trelinnoe Park, created by Brian and John Wills. The...
Uniquely New Zealand is a Touring, Camping and Sailing Guide enabling one to get to the places in New Zealand that 'Packages' can thankfully still not reach.
Education in an inter-cultural space is a feature of Aotearoa New Zealand: the education system is of European origin as are many in the teaching profession, while the student population is diverse. Within that diversity are Pasifika students, those with links to Pacific Island nations resident ...
Lovers of the New Zealand forest, who have to live in an age when axe2 and fire are doing their deadly work so fast, must regret that the fairies, defenders15 of trees, have now passed away. Of yore when the Maori were about to fell a tree they made propitiatory16 offerings to Tan...
Primary cutaneous melanomas (including both invasive and in situ melanomas) reported during 2003 were included. Age-standardized melanoma rates were calculated for the entire population as well as for the non-Maori population of the region, identified from the 2001 New Zealand Census. The age-...