Author: Charles HursthousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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New Zealand, Or, Zealandia, the Britain of the South
Author: Charles HursthousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Zealandia
Author: The Zealandia Drowning Debate
Author: Hamish CampbellPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1927131960
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Did the entire New Zealand land mass sink beneath the waves 23 million years ago? Many biologists reject the idea and insist that our native terrestrial fauna can be explained only by the continuous existence of land. But many geologists are now asserting that there is no longer any convincing geological evidence that the New Zealand section of Zealandia remained above the sea’s surface. But if Zealandia did sink completely beneath the waves 23 million years ago – where did our distinctive ancient flora and fauna such as the tuatara and our tree ferns come from? This BWB Text is a provocative treatment of the ‘Drowning Zealandia’ scientific controversy by geologist Hamish Campbell.
Zealandia
Author: Zealandia's Hope
Author: George WillmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Zealandia's Jubilee
Author: John Liddell KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Canadian National Record for Swine
Author: Zealandia, a Monthly Magazine of New Zealand Literature
Author: Zealandia
Author: Hamish CampbellPublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143571568
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
*Best Books of 2014* New Zealand Listener Imagine a typical continent with seemingly endless land in all directions. There are broad valleys and uplands, wide-open vistas across undulating plains, and upstanding mountain ranges far in the distance. There may be prominent features that command attention and draw the eye, such as odd-shaped hills, peaks, pinnacles, mesas and volcanoes. And there may be canyons, valleys, gorges, large depressions and basins. Now imagine this same continent under the sea, and largely drowned. Welcome to Zealandia. Continents are some of Planet Earth's most striking geographic and geological features. To have a continental identity is to be important, significant, recognised. This book makes a compelling claim for Zealandia to take its place alongside Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. Zealandia is a continent almost entirely submerged. With New Zealand as its largest inhabited land mass, it stretches north to incorporate New Caledonia, south beyond Auckland and Campbell islands, west beyond Australia's Lord Howe Island and east past the Chathams. Its ancestry reaches back more than half a billion years - a long, complex and dramatic story of growth, stretching, break-up, submergence, immersion and collision. The story of its cargo of plant and animal life is also one of change - of extinction, adaption and migration. A big book full of big ideas, and brought to you by renowned GNS scientists Hamish Campbell (co-author of In Search of Ancient New Zealand) and Nick Mortimer, Zealandia: Our Continent Revealed is in every respect a landmark publication - thought-provoking, visually stunning and eminently readable. 'I couldn't resist this superbly illustrated and persuasively written voyage through the distant past. It's fascinating stuff that will undoubtedly generate considerable debate.' - Christopher Moore, New Zealand Listener
Lays of Northern Zealandia
Author: Edward Skelton GartonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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