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Kōrero: Coastal shoreline

Treasure on the shoreline

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Treasure on the shoreline

New Zealanders have been slow to appreciate the many good qualities of driftwood cast up on their beaches. As well as firewood, it provides a home for lizards, beetles, and spiders, and helps protect the land from storm waves.

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NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

by Alan Blacklock

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Maggy Wassilieff, Coastal shoreline – Sandy beaches – lower shore, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/4839/treasure-on-the-shoreline (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maggy Wassilieff, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.