This winter’s freak snowfalls are not unprecedented...
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 […]...
When a postcard is not a postcard...
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. […]...
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....
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....
The legacy of Saana Murray...
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 […]...
Queen Elizabeth II in the Antipodes...
While women still need to endure courtship, females of other species have learned how to reproduce without males....
