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  Post-Flood volcanism on the Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
Post-Flood volcanism on the Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
New Zealand is located in the South Pacific Ocean 1600 km SE of Australia and comprises two large islands, the North Island and the South Island (Figure 1), and several smaller ones.
In this case the absence of glaciers on Banks Peninsula could be explained by the volcanoes being isolated from the mainland and surrounded by warmer ocean waters during the Ice Age.
www.answersingenesis.org /tj/v15/i1/volcanism.asp   (5438 words)

  
 Banks Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banks Peninsula is located in the Canterbury region on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, partly surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, and adjacent to the largest city in the South Island, Christchurch, which has approximately 370,000 residents.
The peninsula, including Lyttelton and neighbouring areas that are not on the peninsula proper, was governed by the Banks Peninsula District Council from 1989 until 6 March 2006 when the council was merged with neighbouring Christchurch City Council.
The population of the peninsula in 2001 was 7,833 residents (2001 census).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banks_Peninsula,_New_Zealand   (1032 words)

  
 New Zealand Visitor Information - New Zealand Maps - Travel Information map for New Zealand
The north of New Zealand is subtropical and the south temperate.
All visitors to New Zealand must carry a passport that is valid for at least three months beyond the date you intend to leave the country.
New Zealand is one of the first places in the world to see the new day, 12 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
www.newzealand-holidays.com /visitorsinfo/visinfo.html   (1563 words)

  
 Great New Zealand Travel Directory Accommodation NZ Tourism New Zealand Travel Information
New Zealand has a wide of range of quality accommodation options to suit all budgets — hotels, resorts, luxury lodges, self contained motels & apartments, bed & breakfast / homestays, holiday homes, backpacker, holiday parks & camping.
The plains are a centre for agriculture and are flanked to the west by the Southern Alps.
The Coromandel peninsula is a fairly rugged part of New Zealand with excellent opportunities for bush walks in the Kauri forests or relaxing on the quiet beaches.
www.greatnewzealand.co.nz   (1169 words)

  
 BANKS PENINSULA - BANKS PENINSULA - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Banks Peninsula is situated in about the middle of the east coast of the South Island on the margin of the Canterbury Plains.
Originally Banks Peninsula was an island, but it became tied to the Canterbury Plains at some late stage in geological history when the growing alluvial plain reached its base.
The lower slopes of the peninsula are mantled with a yellow, wind-blown silt, called loess, which was blown by the norwesters during the most recent ice advances from the wide beds of rivers such as the Waimakariri.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/B/BanksPeninsula/BanksPeninsula/en   (558 words)

  
 New Zealand Tourism Online : New Zealand Travel, Accommodation, Tours, Attractions, Vacation and NZ Holiday Sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
New Zealand Tourism Online offers over 12,000 NZ accommodation, attraction, tour and transport listings plus extensive travel, vacation, holiday and visitor information.
New Zealand is one of the top holiday destinations in the world with its clean green natural image, scenery, Lord of the Rings film setting, adventure, culture and value for money.
New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people have a unique and fascinating language and culture, which plays a major role in New Zealand life.Experience the culture, traditions and activities of the Maori people...
tourism.net.nz /.../canterbury/canterbury---akaroa-and-banks-peninsula   (663 words)

  
 Balogh Scientific Books on new Zealand Botany
Introductory material includes: a short history of lichenological exploration in New Zealand, a survey of taxonomic literature relating to New Zealand lichens for the period 1781--1983 and list of collectors of New Zealand lichens and of institutions wher their collections are held.
Botany of the Manawatu district of New Zealand.
A checklist and classification of New Zealand lichens is presented based on recently published phyetic schemes in the Ascomycotina, and on revisions of individual families and genera.
www.balogh.com /kiwi/kiwi.html   (3696 words)

  
 New Zealand Tours,Travel to New Zealand,New Zealand Holiday Packages,Vacation in New Zealand,Travel Package for New ...
New Zealand is a spectacularly beautiful country which possesses vast mountain chains, steaming volcanoes, sweeping coastlines and lush rainforests.
Since New Zealand is separated from other land masses for more than 100 million years, has allowed many ancient plants and animals to survive and evolve in isolation.
It is the prime gateway to New Zealand and is the locus of commercial and the industrial activities of the country.
www.richetravels.com /new_zealand_tours.php   (1979 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch City (population 320,000) sits at the base of the long arc of Pegasus Bay, bounded to the north by the Waimakariri River and to the south by the old crater complex of the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula.
The heavily braided rivers of the South Island of New Zealand bring greywacke rock from the Southern Alps to the west, forming the huge alluvial pan (750,000 ha) of the Canterbury Plains.
Banks Peninsula, named for explorer Captain Cook’s botanist, consists of two overlapping extinct volcanoes, the Lyttelton Volcano and the Akaroa Volcano.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=10923   (411 words)

  
 Hiking New Zealand : New Zealand Adventure Travel, New Zealand Hiking & Antarctica Cruises
Hiking New Zealand takes people backpacking or trekking New Zealand style (we call it tramping), to secret places, well off the beaten tourist track.
If you want a New Zealand hiking vacation, are fit and active, and want to hike into true wilderness, with informative, fun guides, then our Hiking Tours offer the best hiking holiday options available in New Zealand.
We also offer some of New Zealand's Great Walks, such as the famous Abel Tasman and Queen Charlotte Tracks, and the slightly lesser-known New Zealand Great Walk, the Stewart Island Track, in the far south of the country.
www.hikingnewzealand.com   (262 words)

  
 A Garden Tour with Christine Dann - Garden - Organic Pathways - Your Online Guide to Organics in Aotearoa New Zealand
She is the author of Cottage Gardening in New Zealand, The Cottage Garden Cook Book and Perennial Gardening in New Zealand.
When Christine and Martin started their Diamond Harbour garden nine years ago, they spent time improving the soil for the vegetable plots and the raspberries, but the flower garden was planted fast, and Christine says she learnt the hard way what she could get away with.
Another plant which does well in her dry Banks Peninsula garden, where the rainfall is 55 millimetres lower than neighbouring Christchurch, is the Hebe, a plant she says is under-rated in New Zealand while being sought after in Europe.
www.organicpathways.co.nz /garden/story/27.html   (1251 words)

  
 Peninsula Projects
Peninsula Projects offers a project management, consultancy and data analysis service based on Banks Peninsula.
Our consultants have an excellent local knowledge of the Peninsula and are committed to delivering quality projects to meet your specifications on time, on budget and at reasonable rates.
We are available to undertake a variety of Peninsula based work, be it managing your project, organising your function, assisting with business analysis, market research, or conduting public consultation for local government.
www.peninsulaprojects.co.nz /index.htm   (196 words)

  
 Akaroa Village Inn - Akaroa (Banks Peninsula) - New Zealand Accommodation - Let's Go NZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Akaroa Village Inn Motel, is located in a magical seaside resort that oozes in the history of New Zealands only French settlement, approx.80 kilometres from Christchurch.
The Peninsula was formed by the violent eruptions of two volcanoes and has had a remarkable history of human occupation.
Some 63 French settlers stayed and established what is one of New Zealand's most beautiful towns, one with a totally french flavour.
www.letsgo.co.nz /zones/detail_accomodation.asp?id=422   (454 words)

  
 Student Research, Marine Science, Otago University , New Zealand
Abundance estimates were derived for sperm whales at Kaikoura, bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound, Hector's dolphins in Banks Peninsula and New Zealand sea lions on Otago Peninsula.
The most recent estimates are as follows: 58 resident sperm whales at Kaikoura (cv=0.09), 49 adult bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound (CV=0.02), 843 Hector's dolphins around Banks Peninsula (cv=0.17), and 46 adult New Zealand sea lions on Otago Peninsula (cv=0.09).
The low CV values are due to a number of factors such as high average capture probabilities (ranging from 0.33 for resident sperm whales to 0.98 for bottlenose dolphins) and long-term studies in every case (ranging from 9 sampling periods for New Zealand sea lions to 21 sampling periods for sperm whales).
www.otago.ac.nz /MarineScience/research/Abstracts/goran_abs.htm   (405 words)

  
 Akaroa -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Akaroa is situated on the Banks Peninsula of the South...
Akaroa is a town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of...
Tours in Canterbury New Zealand to the areas of Kaikoura, Akaroa, Hanmer Springs and others for whale watching, dolphin swimming, golf, wine trails, farm tours and more...
travel-new-zealand-swicki.eurekster.com /Akaroa   (318 words)

  
 Kawatea Farm, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand
Kawatea Farm is situated about 20 km from the small town of Akaroa at Okains Bay on Banks Peninsula.
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www.ginz.com /new_zealand/canterbury/bankspeninsula/accommodation/suppliers/Kawatea_Farm/itineraryitem   (441 words)

  
 Stephenson & Shulmeister--Holocene progradation, Okains Bay
New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts
Abstract Fifty-eight distinct ridges are preserved on the Holocene progradation plain in Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury.
The fill is dominantly fine sand, which is derived from sediment carried around Banks Peninsula in the Southland Current and washed into Okains Bay by wave action.
www.rsnz.org /publish/nzjgg/1999/2.php   (250 words)

  
 New Zealand Invertebrate Speciation
In most places within New Zealand just a single species of tree weta is found but where two species overlap they often share galleries.
For example on Bank Peninsula the two species H. femorata (the Canterbury tree weta) and H. ricta (the rare Banks Peninsula tree weta) meet and a few hybrids are produced.
Morgan-Richards, M. A new species of tree weta in the North Island of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Hemideina) New Zealand Entomologist, 18: 15-23.
awcmee.massey.ac.nz /nzinsects/page2.html   (927 words)

  
 Australian Systematic Botany Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Checklist of the Mosses of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
This publication is No. 17 in the Landcare Research Science Series and is the first checklist to be published on the mosses of Banks Peninsula.
One aspect of note is that publication of the Flora of New Zealand Volume V, which will deal with the native and naturalised grasses, is planned for next year.
www.anbg.gov.au /asbs/newsletter/book-review-92e.html   (434 words)

  
 Index to The New Zealand Health Information Network
Good health may be defined as life in balance or harmony, however this is not a universal experience, there is a great deal of ill health and suffering caused by poverty, malnutrition, greed, injustice, pollution and stresses which wreck havoc on our human biology and ecosystem on which we are totally dependent.
A new threat to our biology are the genetically modified or irradiated foods.
This is a new science of which the consequences to our health and survival are largely unknown and it may take a thousand years for a risk assessment to be completed, yet these are being forced upon us.
www.nzhealth.net.nz /nzitinery/ch-banks.html   (545 words)

  
 Railways of New Zealand: Railways of Banks Peninsula
Railways of New Zealand: Railways of Banks Peninsula
Banks Peninsula is a hilly area of land to the west of Christchurch.
In the mid 2000s the remains of the closed Little River Branch are being developed as a rail trail similar to those in other parts of NZ.
www.trainweb.org /enzedrail/branch/bankspeninsula   (76 words)

  
 Ayres Adventures New Zealand Motorcycle Tours   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Isolated from the rest of New Zealand by the Southern Alps, Coasters have developed a distinctive culture of their own, where the pioneering values of self-reliance and hospitality are as strong now as they were a century ago.
It's New Zealand's cultural 'heartland' and is reputed to be one of the best motorcycling areas in the world with light traffic, spectacular scenery, and great roads.
We recommend a ride around the nearby Banks Peninsula, including a stop at some coffee shops and lunch stops favored by local riders - including lunch in Akaroa - famous for the great salmon that is caught and served there and throughout New Zealand.
www.ronayres.com /nz_NS.htm   (1699 words)

  
 WWF - Hector's dolphin
Hector's dolphin is endemic to the coastal waters of New Zealand, where it is threatened by fisheries bycatch, pollutants and boat disturbance.
WWF-New Zealand advocates increased protection of the dolphin through government fisheries and conservation decisions, and supports a community and schools awareness programme (currently for Maui's; a South Island programme is in development).
A rare and small cetacean, this dolphin is identified by a solidly built body with a gently sloping snout and a unique rounded (mickey mouse ear shaped) dorsal fin.
www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/endangered_species/cetaceans/hectors_dolphin/index.cfm   (431 words)

  
 tursiops.org
Protesters shouting "Stop the killing" heckled pro-whaling Japan's ambassador to New Zealand on Thursday as he took part in a government-hosted whale watching excursion, media reports said.
A bus carrying the diplomats and their host, Conservation Minister Chris Carter, was met by 10 fl-clad anti-whaling protesters carrying harpoon-shaped sticks, Radio New Zealand and Television New Zealand reported.
According to researchers studying this bizarre phenomenon, the gulls gouge through the skin of the whales’ backs to feed on skin and blubber, causing lesions along their spines and affecting whale behaviour.
tursiops.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1814   (1613 words)

  
 Akaroa Accommodation
Just 85 kilometres from the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, Akaroa is an historic French and British settlement nestled in the heart of an ancient volcano.
Banks Peninsula was formed following the violent eruptions of two volcanoes.
The Akaroa Criterion Motel is a modern complex, located 1.5 hours drive from Christchurch, and nestled amongst the historic French settlement of Akaroa.
www.ki-wi.co.nz /akaroa_banks_peninsula.htm   (423 words)

  
 Akaroa and Banks Peninsula New Zealand, Travel Tourism and Accommodation for Akaroa and Banks Peninsula Christchurch NZ.
Akaroa and Banks Peninsula New Zealand, Travel Tourism and Accommodation for Akaroa and Banks Peninsula Christchurch NZ.
Akaroa and Banks Peninsula New Zealand are located within the Christchurch area, in the Canterbury region, on the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Akaroa is located on Banks Peninsula, the most prominent volcanic feature of the South Island, about 82 kilometres by road from Christchurch City.
www.tourism.net.nz /region/canterbury/canterbury---akaroa-and-banks-peninsula   (143 words)

  
 New Zealand Accommodation Akaroa Paihia Russell Hotels and Resort Managers New Zealand
Welcome to TourismFlair., We are a professionally managed Hotel Management Company owned and based in Auckland, New Zealand with a reputation for progressive and successful hotel management.
From building new premium serviced suite hotels to reinvigorating existing ones, TourismFlair is proud to be one of the most successful managers and developers of full-service hotels in New Zealand.
TourismFlair currently manages six properties in New Zealand and have their own Central Reservation office which will greatly assist in timely completion of reservation enquiries.
www.tourismflair.com   (511 words)

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