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… in New Zealand, the country may be divided into landscape regions. Contrasts in kind of country from area to area are often obvious to the eye. The regional diversity of scene is mainly a function of the … so easy. The north (i.e., the high country of Nelson and Marlborough) is quite unique because it is made of closely …
… and a broad belt from the Bay of Plenty through the Taupo region to Wellington may also have become land by then: the … It also flooded over most of Canterbury, a little of Marlborough, and over a long, narrow strip of the west coast … and Hawke's Bay-Wairarapa. The Wanganui-Rangitikei region is today the site of a major negative gravity anomaly …
… Southern Alps from Otago through Canterbury to Nelson and Marlborough. The soils are thin and poor, often infertile, … organised and financed research into the ecology of the region commenced only this decade, 40 years after A. H. …
… and he made a special study of the flora of Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury. Hooker considered the … of the earliest explorers who penetrated the upper Wairau region of Nelson Province, his name has been commemorated on …
… remain. Subtropical weathering of basalt flows in the Kaeo region of Northland has led to the formation of the … rocks of the South Island. The largest mine was in the Marlborough Sounds, and smaller mines were at Alexandra, …
… The Northern Region Just as the great Alpine fault divides east from … Nelson), this encloses the triangular zone containing the Marlborough Sounds country of hard-rock hills (greywacke and … first clearly described in Cotton's classic paper on the region. The country is unique, too, for its semi-arid …
… Mt. Egmont, became the first specialised dairying region in the country. The reasons are probably to be found … Similarly, Taranaki's earlier maturity as a dairying region enabled it to supply many of the stud Jersey cattle … of population that has been exceeded on occasions only by Marlborough and Westland. Nevertheless, the actual increase …
… New Zealand, on 23 March 1911. He was sent to England to Marlborough College and later went to Trinity College, … 1950 to 1952 and from 1959 to 1961. His current position is regional director Europe for the International Wool … children and was boy scout commissioner for the Canterbury region. The next four years he was warden at St. Barnabas' …