Kōrero: Beach culture

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• Cam-Era: video-monitoring New Zealand’s environment

  Part of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research site, Cam-Era gives hourly images of New Zealand beaches and rivers.

• Piha

  This site provides contemporary and historical information about Piha Beach.

• The Victorian seaside

  This page, from the BBC’s social history site, explores the Victorian seaside in Great Britain.

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• Barnett, Stephen, and Richard Wolfe. At the beach: the great New Zealand holiday. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993.
• Carlin, Jocelyn, and Lloyd Jones. Beach New Zealand. Auckland: David Bateman, 1999.
• Coney, Sandra. Piha: a history in images. Auckland: Keyhole, 1997.
• Daley, Caroline. Leisure and pleasure: reshaping and revealing the New Zealand body, 1900–1960. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.
• Lenček, Lena, and Gideon Bosker. The beach: a history of paradise on earth. London: Secker & Warburg, 1998.
• McLean, Denis. The long pathway: te ara roa. Auckland: Collins, 1986.