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… prevailing currents, creating sandy beaches and barriers. Farewell Spit, a 24-kilometre sandbar at the north-western tip of the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Coastal shoreline
… after Sandyhook, a nickname for the sickle-shaped Farewell Spit. High country mustering High country mustering has …
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Part of story: Rural language
… Some mainland nature reserves are quite large, such as Farewell Spit Nature Reserve (11,423 hectares), which protects the …
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Part of story: Protected areas
… Waikato (Aotea and Kāwhia harbours), the Manawatū coast, Farewell Spit, the Fiordland coast, Southland (Oreti Beach) and …
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Part of story: Dune lands
… Around midnight on 6–7 August the ship ran aground on Farewell Spit, at the northern tip of the South Island. The Gibbs …
Type: Biography
… Sounds (argillite for adzes) Whangamoa, above Nelson, and Farewell Spit (argillite) Pāhua, on the West Coast of the South …
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Part of story: Ngā waewae tapu – Māori exploration
… covering almost 40,200 hectares: Waituna Lagoon, Southland Farewell Spit, Nelson Whangamarino, Waikato Kopuatai Peat Dome, …
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Part of story: Wetlands
… in March 1846, Brunner, Heaphy and Kehu set off from Farewell Spit for the Buller River on the West Coast. Carrying heavy …
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Part of story: European exploration
… (near Auckland), Cape Kidnappers in Hawke’s Bay and on Farewell Spit. Gannets sight fish while flying overhead and capture …
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Part of story: Seabirds – overview
… railway, and the manufacture of the steel lighthouse for Farewell Spit (1895–96). In 1903 a private limited liability company, …
Type: Biography
… the group helped make Lake Rotoroa a scenic reserve and Farewell Spit a sanctuary. Pérrine's most notable success was the …
Type: Biography
… alone in 1877. Their ship, the Queen Bee , was wrecked on Farewell Spit just before arrival. Frederick spent two years at the … involvement with boards and committees. He died in Nelson Hospital on 16 January 1953. …
Type: Biography
… He then took up a licence for a sheep and cattle run near Farewell Spit, and later purchased 1,500 acres. He also took part in …
Type: Biography