The seaward Kaikoura range

March in Kaikoura - The Shearwater Project

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March 25th 2008
It's been a while again since my last entry. I've been busy these past few weeks volunteering for the Department of Conservation. I've been involved in an attempt to establish a new breeding colony of the rare Hutton's Shearwater on the Kaikoura peninsula. This is something I heard about and decided I wanted to do before I got here. Shearwater chicks were brought down from the two alpine colonies ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Kaikoura

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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