the above-water part— the three main islands and 700 smaller islands of New Zealand—makes up only seven per cent of the area of continental crust geologically known as Zealandia. How well are we protecting the biodiversity of the other 95 per cent of our continent? close to eight per cen...
Wellington Zoo:You’ll find around 100 species of animals from four different continents in New Zealand’s first zoo, which was founded in 1906. In addition to these zoos, there are several wildlife sanctuaries, such as the abovementioned Zealandia, that enable you to see animals of all types...
The foothills around Ngapara and Duntroon are overlain with thousands of hectares of limestone—the sedimentary signature of the warm ocean that covered Zealandia more than 23 million years ago, when the continent of which New Zealand is a part was almost completely submerged. It protrudes above ...
Map of Late Triassic to early Paleogene fossiliferous amber localities of Australia and Zealandia, Southern Pangea and Southern Gondwana. (1) Late Triassic: Fingal Coal Measures (Carnian Stage), Tasmania. (2) Late Cretaceous: Tupuangi Formation (upper Cenomanian of Chatham Islands), eastern Zealan...
Located on the Indo-Australian Plate, New Caledonia is part of the mostly submerged continent of Zealandia. Orientated northwest to southeast, this landmass is a fragment of the ancient continent of Gondwana, which broke off from Australia about 66 million years ago and drifted in a northeasterly...
Etymology:From Zealandia, the continent on which New Zealand is emergent andvetusLatin adjective for old, ancient, or former, to reflect the fact that the new species was an old inhabitant of Zealandia, masculine. Type locality:Bed HH1b, c.10 cm thick sand and coarse cobble layer, 9.5–9.5...
Takahe 11 at Zealandia, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand. Videos provided by Youtube are under the copyright of their owners. Attractions and noteworthy thingsDistances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday acti...
Most if not all of the pre-existing continent of Zealandia, which is an order of magnitude larger than New Zealand, is today below the sea [21,22] (Figure 1). A more youthful perspective on New Zealand geology has enabled biological thinking to move away from a focus on ancient ...