Issue 112 Nov - Dec 2011 Archives - New Zealand Geographic

History

In 1993 Brett Phibbs began shooting for the New Zealand Herald. “I love shooting for a newspaper,” he says at a gallery opening in Devonport for his workmate, friend and last year’s New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year, Richard Robinson. “There’s something about the speed that you move at. You work hard and fast […]...

History

The Queen’s Speech

Queen Elizabeth II in the Antipodes...

Living World

No sex please, we’re parthenogenetic

While women still need to endure courtship, females of other species have learned how to reproduce without males....

Living World

Painting with light

Marti Friedlander saw us for who we are....

Science & Environment

Sniffer bees

Detecting tuberculosis is all in a day’s work for bees...

Society

Tweeting your mind

Micro-blogging the world’s mood...

Science & Environment

Feeding the enemy

The silent menace in New Zealand waterways...

Science & Environment

Snowed in

This winter’s freak snowfalls are not unprecedented...

Geography

Mt Manaia Track

According to one Maori legend there were five brothers, Manaia, Maungaraho, Tokatoka, Motowhitiki and Taungatara, who were disillusioned with their lives in Hawaiki. Under cover of darkness they decided to follow the path of the great explorer Kupe and travel to Aotearoa. At dawn the mighty Atua took away their powers of motion, stranding them […]...

Dead letters

When a postcard is not a postcard...

Science & Environment

Black tide

The MV Rena left the Port of Napier at 9:40AM, October 4, 2011. Short on time to catch the tide in Tauranga, the container ship passed so close to the smaller 14,000-tonne tanker MV Torea, that the master of that vessel was forced to alter course as they overtook, eventually completing a full 360º turn. […]...

Geography

Pegasus rising

Sales manager Darryl Maclean is a happy man as another section sells in Pegasus, a residential development 25 km north of Christchurch. Designed around a lake and within minutes of the shores of Pegasus Bay, the town is promoted as a place to “live where you play”, but not everyone shares the developer’s enthusiasm....

Geography

Top of the South

As the second New Zealand Company settlement, there were high hopes for Nelson. But like its quayside coal-fired power generation scheme, that became a fish processing factory, then a seafood research facility, the city had a way of defying its founders to offer something completely unique....

Magazine

Issue 200

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on Wellington’s predator-free reserve Mana Island with her husband, then a DOC ranger. The couple spent two years on the island, often alone, spanning Feltham’s first pregnancy and 10 months of their baby’s life. An incredible honour, she says, but it […]...

Features

Choose your own adventure

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a certain number of points. Some are buried in brambles, others hidden in gorges. Some, fiendishly, will lead you away from fresh water. You have 24 hours, and a map. Go....