Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing - New Zealand Geographic
WEBSāmoan independence led to a revival of tā tatau, and in the 1960s and 1970s, Sāmoans arriving in New Zealand in search of work introduced it to this country. As it spread beyond its island shores, it adapted to novel conditions by harnessing new materials. Kerosene soot or Indian ink was substituted for the traditional burned candlenut-soot ...
Inside the Land March - New Zealand Geographic
WEBTe Rōpū o te Matakite sets out from Te Hāpua on September 14, 1975. Te Hāpua was the birthplace of then-Minister of Māori Affairs Matiu Rata. The proposed march united a wide cross-section of urban and rural Māori, but support was not universal. Rata felt it would undermine his efforts from within the government, and sought to head it off.
What went wrong and what are we doing about it? - New Zealand …
WEBSix years and one month to the day after landing at Paihia in the Bay of Islands William Colenso finished a rush job. He was a printer, and in the early evening of January 30, 1840, he completed the last of a hundred invitations asking Northland chiefs to come to Mr and Mrs Busby’s house the next week to meet the “chief of the Queen”, who had arrived from Sydney to be “a governor for ...
What happened on Whakaari? - New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe eruption started at 9.35pm, with big heaves inside the crater. At 10.03pm, it began pelting the walking track with projectiles, but withheld its final energy until 10.11pm when, with a whoomph, it sent the plume sky-high.A scalding current of steam and debris, coloured green by the hydrothermally altered rock it contained, rolled right over the walking track at 11 metres per second, and ...
Land of the Kiwi - New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe wildlife is so different. Strange insects, frogs who carry their young, birds that cannot fly, the kiwi, the national symbol of New Zealand because it is so unique. We explore this world, the flightless birds, its only mammal – a tiny bat, as we explain the extraordinary link between an isolated land and unusual plant and animal life.
Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird
WEBThe Moa were. perhaps the most unusual family of birds that ever lived. Some boasted legs built like an elephant, others laid eggs the size of rugby balls, and the giant moa was the tallest bird ever to walk the planet. They evolved in isolation over millions of years, roaming the forests of New Zealand, but were ill-prepared for humans.
Tui - New Zealand Geographic
WEBTui are distributed throughout the North and South Islands and thrive as far south as the Auckland Islands. Chatham Island is home to a larger sub-species of tui. They were once also populous in Hamilton but have only just returned after decades of rejuvenation programmes that have restored greenbelts around the city limits.
Ferns: the glory of the forest - New Zealand Geographic
WEBIn few of the world's temperate forests do ferns assume the luxuriance and dominance that they achieve in the damper portions of the New Zealand bush. Fronds decorate every tree-trunk and choke the floor of the forest, while stands of huge tree ferns tower over lesser trees. Little wonder that the fern frond has become a major symbol of the country in …
Who are Tūhoe? - New Zealand Geographic
WEBOf the estimated 40,000 Maori who identify as Ngāi Tūhoe, only a small percentage live in the rohe, where they keep alive te ahi kaa, the long burning fire of faith and culture. Peter James Quinn. Wielding staves and taiaha, young Tūhoe salute a body being brought on to Tanatana marae, in Waimana.
The night Tarawera awoke - New Zealand Geographic
WEBThe night Tarawera awoke. When Mt Tarawera and the surrounding area erupted in the early hours of June 10, 1886, the explosion annihilated the world-famous Pink and White Terraces, smothered a vast swathe of countryside with ash and killed more than 100 people. It remains the largest volcanic eruption since European settlement, an outburst of ...
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