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From inland to the coast

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In the 1981 television series Landmarks, geographer Kenneth Cumberland explored the ways in which nature shaped different New Zealand environments, and how New Zealanders had shaped those environments. Here he contrasts dry Central Otago with coastal suburban Auckland.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Regional economies – Regional economies, 1920 to 1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/25230/from-inland-to-the-coast (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 6 April 2010.