A moss & fern covered tree

Waipoua Kauri Forest

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June 4th 2011
On our final day in the Northland region, we headed to the west to the Waipoua Kauri Forest. The kauri is a pine-bearing tree that goes through remarkable changes in its stages in life. It starts off looking like a normal pine tree. As it matures in its middle age, the trunk widens (I can't relate to this mid-section widening during middle age) and the top thins out. The giants in this for ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more