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… of boulders. Māui A platform After many trials in appalling weather, the Māui A platform was completed and functioning … of upending and pinning the tower to the sea floor in rough weather. In 1976 New Zealand experienced its worst summer weather for 25 years. Experienced oil workers based at the …
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Part of story: Engineering on the sea floor
… very high in summer – a time when many areas have hot, dry weather, not conducive to good pasture growth. Calving in … the winter with little fat and are very vulnerable to cold weather. Stags need high-quality feed in winter – and in … after the rut. Pre-rut weaning is more traditional, as the weather is warmer and better feed is available. Deer in the …
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Part of story: Deer and deer farming
… Many beaches provided combinations of all these breaks. Weather affected the size and quality of the surf, and as weather forecasts were unhelpful in the early days, surfers …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing
… undulating to moderately steep hill country that has been weathered by the subtropical climate over a long period of … is used on podzolised sands (areas leached of nutrients by weathering and acid tree litter). Forest grown near coastal …
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Part of story: Soils and regional land use
… a drop of rain is kōpata. Whakataritari ua is the name for weather leading up to rain, while taru whakaru is damp, cloudy weather. Maomao is the moment when rain stops. Māwake … to stop rain falling, and was known as ‘he tūā i te rangi’ (weather charm). It was documented from Tuta Nihoniho, a …
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Part of story: Tāwhirimātea – the weather
… rugged topography often enhances the effects of these weather systems, as moist air forced up and over mountainous … Floods may also occur after landslides triggered by severe weather or earthquakes dam rivers and streams. Water backs …
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Part of story: Floods
… more from the south-west than usual. In El Niño years the weather is wetter in the west and south, and drier in the … parts of the ocean. For example, during the 1992–93 El Niño weather pattern, the north-east coast of New Zealand … to Great Barrier Island was killed. La Niña La Niña is a weather pattern consisting of stronger trade winds and a …
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Part of story: Ocean currents and tides
… wind is known as marangai, also meaning a storm, or bad weather. However, in some districts, marangai means the … that its meaning depended on the quarter from which bad weather tends to come in that district. Similarly, ori meant … deprived winds of their power – for instance, to bring calm weather for a fishing trip. Tolaga Bay On his first voyage …
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Part of story: Tāwhirimātea – the weather
… is believed to be related. People, birds, fish, trees, weather patterns – they are all members of a cosmic family. … recited the whakapapa of people, birds, fish, trees and the weather to explain the relationships between all things and …
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Part of story: Te Ao Mārama – the natural world
… indicated that navigators understood how to use the various weather systems. The possible role of El Niño in Polynesian … the last 5,000 years there have been periods when El Niño weather patterns became more frequent. The patterns occur … east easier than they might have been during normal Pacific weather patterns. Some researchers think El Niño winds …
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Part of story: Pacific migrations
… in flat rolling land where there has been prolonged weathering but little erosion. Forming a sticky, … bane of many gardeners, it consists of rock that has been weathered into very small particles – a teaspoonful of the …
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Part of story: Rock, limestone and clay
… parent materials, whether they are loess, ash, alluvium or weathered rock, are influenced by the nature of the original … ash. The ash contains natural volcanic glass, which weathers in the soil to become allophane. Allophane is a …
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Part of story: Soils
… (sometimes called depressions) are associated with bad weather. Fronts The trough of low pressure that moves over … so accelerates the pressure fall at sea level. Unsettled weather Many of the lows that form in the Tasman Sea bring unsettled weather to New Zealand. When the lows are deep, they have …
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Part of story: Weather
… throughout the Canterbury Plains. Speed Because New Zealand weather can change rapidly, speed is an important consideration in farm work. Weather is particularly changeable during the seasons when …
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Part of story: Farm mechanisation
… aircraft construction and maintenance, air traffic control, weather forecasting and training have enhanced air safety in … aviation organisations and airways services such as weather forecasters. A commercial company, Airways New …
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Part of story: Air crashes
… how this affects land use choices. What soils are made of Weather, micro-organisms (or microbes) and chemicals all act … rocks, and where the land is very old and the rocks have weathered to clay. Sand and sandy loam soils are most common …
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Part of story: Soils
… and cold beer and wine feature in many a summer feast. Weather In New Zealand the early summer weather can be unpredictable, and torrential rain often …
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Part of story: Holidays
… with its rugged mountains, powerful rivers and extremes of weather have helped forge the national character. The … climate New Zealand lies in the path of the roaring forties weather systems. The mountainous terrain often increases the … drama – you’ve come to the right place.’ 1 Rapidly changing weather, including snow and freezing temperatures, have …
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Part of story: Natural hazards – overview
… Difficult roads Mud was a huge problem, and wet weather turned many roads into bogs. Drivers had to approach … abrasive silica dust damaged exposed engines’ parts. Fair-weather roads Once roads were built they had to be … Taranaki was not yet completed – and it only became an all-weather route in the 1920s. In 1921 half of the country’s …
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Part of story: Roads
… as the result of what he admitted was ‘a terrific error’. 1 Weather and geology Much of New Zealand’s landscape is unstable, and the weather can be fickle. The combination can lead to floods …
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Part of story: Railway accidents