The Wairarapa Fault scarp

Pigeon Bush

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December 16th 2012
Breakfast al fresco today before our journey to Napier. However, enroute a stop off for an hour at another iconic geological feature that I have been teaching about for so many years; Pigeon Bush. To get there we had to cross the Rimutaka Range which had some excellent engineering solutions to the problems posed to road design in such high and steep areas. The range is up to 1000 metres high an ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wairarapa

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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