Boulder partly eroded.

Fruit baskets and water gourds........?

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December 12th 2012
Maori legend has it that the iconic rounded boulders found at Moeraki relate to the wreck of an canoe which foundered in a storm at Shag Point, the cargo of which (rounded food baskets and water gourds) was washed up on the shore. To a geologist the Moeraki Boulders are 'septarian' concretions; hard cemented material which forms within the sediment. These formed when cementing minerals ... read more

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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