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	Avalanche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An avalanche is caused when a build up of snow is released down a slope, and is one of the major dangers faced in the mountains in winter.
		Avalanches are often classified by what they are made of, for example snow, ice, rock or soil avalanches.
		Avalanches occur when the load on the upper snow layers exceeds bonding forces (bonding to layer beneath, support from anchors such as rocks and trees, stress support from top or bottom of slope).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avalanche (3418 words)

	New Zealand Mountain Safety Council - Avalanche Awareness
		In an analogue system, the avalanche transceiver is moved around and thus the antenna position is altered constantly until the best signal has been determined by the searcher, this being the closest possible to the bullet line (and/or field line).
		Because of these technical limitations, most digital avalanche transceiver start to struggle to provide any useful information if the victim is over 15 meters away, and from 20 meters onwards it is almost certain for digital avalanche transceivers to have reached their actual (real life situation) useful reach.
		Old frequency avalanche transceivers are likely to be at least 15 years old and thus well past their useful life span.
	www.mountainsafety.org.nz /avalanches/news_detail.asp?view=5&ic=1 (3897 words)

	CBS News \| New Zealand Avalanche Kills 4 \| December 31, 2003 07:46:44
		Such an avalanche during Mount Tasman's climbing season - the November-through-April period that straddles the Southern Hemisphere summer - is unusual and it is not immediately clear what triggered the slide.
		Initial reports erroneously said the avalanche occurred on Mount Cook, which is New Zealand's highest peak.
		Avalanches are common in New Zealand's alpine areas, but usually take place while temperatures are rising following mid-winter, a geological expert said.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/12/31/world/main590834.shtml (459 words)

	Wellington
		This true story graphically illustrates the incredible severity of winter operating conditions along the Cascade Division, and also describes the fatal avalanche that obliterated the railroad hamlet of Wellington, although the death toll was greater, and three of the early box-cab tunnel electrics, famed for their "Cascade Connection" wiring hook-up, went with the unidentified steamers.
		The track formed a horseshoe curve at that point; and as the track west of Wellington was still covered by the slide while the line was open from Scenic west, men had made a toboggan trail by sitting down in scoop shovels and sliding down through the deep snow.
		No. 4 passed through Wellington safely about 5:00 pm by fearing more slides west of us, we were ordered to go ahead of No. 1 to Embro, four miles west of Wellington and left her by us there, if everything was all right.
	www.gngoat.org /wellington.htm (3529 words)

	The Wellington Avalanche: Photographs: Avalanche Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Avalanche came from the right and pushed the trains into the valley to the left.
		Bodies were removed from Wellington using sleds pulled by 2 men with a third in the back holding a rope to keep the sled on the trail.
		When the avalanche came down the trees and rocks that came down with it mixed with the train cars as they tumbled in to the Tye River Valley.
	home1.gte.net /mvmmvm/picts/destruction.html (309 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Train disaster at Wellington kills 96 on March 1, 1910.
		Wellington was a small town populated almost entirely with Great Northern railway employees.
		Ninety-six people died in the avalanche, including 35 passengers, 58 railroad employees sleeping on the trains, and three railroad employees sleeping in cabins enveloped by the avalanche.
		Wellington disaster: the remains of the rotary snowplow, 1910
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5127 (899 words)

	Scientific American: The 10 Worst Snow Disasters in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Avalanches decimate Hannibal’s armies as they try to cross the Alps with elephants.
		A snowslide (known as the Rodi avalanche) buries the town of Plurs, claiming 2,427 victims.
		During the war, soldiers from both sides also use avalanches as weapons, setting off slides with explosives to kill the enemies downhill.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000EC1B8-5DAE-102D-9B7683414B7F0000 (259 words)

	Wellington Avalanche Transceiver Trust
		The Wellington Avalanche Transceiver Trust is a non-profit charitable organisation that exists solely to provide avalanche transceivers to enhance the safety of people from the Wellington region when they are travelling in the mountains.
		Mountaineers, skiers, snowboarders and trampers will are able to hire avalanche transceivers at a cheap rate from the Wellington outdoor shops, because the capital costs of purchasing those transceivers have been met by the trust and our sponsors.
		Wearing avalanche transceivers and knowing how to avoid potential avalanche situations are the two critical factors that can reduce the death toll in our mountains.
	welavtran.wellington.net.nz /html/home.html (491 words)

	Avalanches
		An avalanche is any swift movement of snow, ice, mud, or rock down a mountainside or slope.
		Avalanches, which are natural forms of erosion and often seasonal, can reach speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.
		Destruction from avalanches results both from the avalanche wind (the air pushed ahead of the mass) and from the actual impact of the avalanche material.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0768988.html (205 words)

	NZ Police : Districts : Wellington : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Wellington CIB is appealing for witnesses after a man driving a white four-door car tried to abduct a...
		Wellington Police are reminding members of the public to pick up their bags after an unattended briefcase caused...
		Wellington Police say it was a typically busy night in the Capital but no great problems from the...
	www.police.govt.nz /district/wellington/news.php (943 words)

	Four Killed in New Zealand Avalanche (phillyBurbs.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand - An avalanche swept down one of New Zealand's tallest peaks Wednesday, killing four climbers and injuring two others, rescuers said.
		The climbers were swept off the mountainside when the avalanche hit Mount Tasman at about 8:30 a.m., said Gail Adams of Garden City Rescue Helicopter, which sent rescue helicopters.
		Initial reports erroneously said the avalanche occurred on Mount Cook, which is New Zealand's highest peak at 12,349 feet and which lies about 2 miles to the south.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/92-12302003-219598.html (237 words)

	Powerful earthquake hits islands, jolts New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A powerful earthquake jolted New Zealand on Monday, but no serious injuries or damage were reported.
		The seismological observatory in Wellington said the quake was felt as a slow rolling and swaying motion across the center of the country.
		Commuter trains were slowed in the capital, Wellington, while similar track checks took place.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/052797/normal.htm (106 words)

	Stevens Pass, Washington - Places by Robert D. West
		Wellington, originally named Stevens City, was a small mountain railroad town, built by the railroad to serve as a base for maintenance operations, a terminal for helper locomotives and snow-fighting equipment and to provide coal and water for the locomotives of trains crossing the pass.
		Wellington is still the worst avalanche disaster in history, and while it was ruled an act of God, the event prompted the Great Northern to build the concrete snowshed, and to begin considering building the 7.79 mile Cascade Tunnel between Scenic and Berne.
		The original shed was destroyed in the avalanche, and this foundation is from the shed that was rebuilt in the same place.
	people.msoe.edu /~westr/stevens.htm (5131 words)

	Avalanche Incident (CSAC) - New Zealand 070197 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		WELLINGTON -- A specially trained police dog named Buck yesterday found the body of the second victim of a Mount Ruapehu avalanche.
		WELLINGTON -- The climbers swamped by an avalanche on Mount Ruapehu on Tuesday left behind at a mountain hut vital equipment that could have saved their lives.
		If anyone is buried by an avalanche, rescuers can re-set the transceivers, try to track the signal, and find the buried person.
	www.csac.org /Incidents/1996-97/NZ-070197.html (541 words)

	Winter Backcountry Travel Workshop and Hut Trip
		Not only will you spend three days fine tuning you avalanche and rescue skills, but this is a great opportunity to experience the comfortable atmosphere and solitude of a backcountry hut trip.
		Francie's Cabin, located in the Crystal Lakes Basin, four miles south of Breckenridge, CO is a comfortable spacious backcountry hut with many amenities and high alpine skiing.
		The focus of this workshop is on snow-pack, weather, avalanche phenomenon, terrain analysis, stability evaluation, human factors, risk assessment, decision making, rescue and beacons.
	www.babesinthebackcountry.com /AV_1.html (241 words)

	HSV Avalanche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While Avalanche delivers all the exhilarating V8 performance that HSV customers have come to expect, the way that power translates to the tarmac via all four wheels is something else again.
		To match the capability of Avalanche's 5.7 litre V8 powerplant, which produces 270kW of power and 475Nm of torque, there's the class- leading stopping power of an HSV performance braking system, comprising AP racing ventilated and grooved 336mm front and 315mm rear discs.
		The Avalanche benefits from an energetic design treatment emphasised by a striking front facia,fog lamps, flared body-coloured wheel arches over unique 18-inch chrome shadow alloys, chrome shadow lower facia highlights and a distinctive rear tailgate treatment.
	www.williams-adams.co.nz /hsv-section/avalanche.html (182 words)

	CNN.com - Four killed in NZ avalanche - Dec. 30, 2003
		Four climbers were killed and two others were injured after an avalanche on New Zealand's Mount Tasman, rescuers said Wednesday.
		New Zealand's second-highest peak, Mount Tasman on the South Island, is 804 kilometers (500 miles) southwest of the capital, Wellington.
		Avalanches are common in New Zealand's alpine areas, a geological expert said.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/nz.mtcook.dead.ap/index.html (315 words)

	Wellington (district) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wellington (district)
		District of North Island, New Zealand, bounded on the west and south by the Tasman Sea and Cook Strait; population (1996) 416,000.
		It is mountainous, with a fertile coastal strip, where sheep and dairy cattle are raised.
		Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Wellington+(district) (107 words)

	avalanche disaster -- avalanche disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Avalanche disaster Jamtal Mountain Lodge, Silvretta The 28th of december 1999, the Jamtal Mountain Lodge in the Silvretta was hit by an avalanche in which nine people died.
		Each avalanche disaster is unique and ultimately the rescue leader makes certain decisions to maximize the victim's chances of survival within the limitations of a safe and sane operation.
		It was believed to be the biggest avalanche disaster to hit a trekking or mountaineering expedition in Nepal, where majestic peaks and pristine valleys attract about 65,000 foreign hikers and...
	www.dcaccidents.com /avalanchedisaster (3213 words)

	Petillo sparks Abernathy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Petillo hurt Wellington both from the mound and at the plate.
		In an unscheduled relief appearance, Petillo shut Wellington down, allowing one run on two hits and striking out five on his way to picking up his seventh win of the season.
		At the plate he was three for four, reached on an error and scored twice.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/052597/petillo.htm (122 words)

	Herald Sun: Avalanche kills two Aussies (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		NZPA reported that two New Zealanders and two Australians died in a group of six who were climbing in the area when the avalanche hit.
		A friend of a Tasmanian man killed in an avalanche on Mt Cook in New Zealand says the death will be a shock to the Tasmanian climbing community.
		New Zealand's second-highest peak, Mount Tasman on the South Island, is 804km southwest of the capital, Wellington.
	www.heraldsun.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5478,8291297^401,00.html (858 words)

	The Border Mail
		WELLINGTON: An avalanche on one of New Zealands highest mountains sent two Australians and two local climbers plunging 500m to their deaths yesterday.
		Two others were injured in the avalanche as the group of six was climbing a steep part of Mt Tasman, New Zealands second-tallest peak in the Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park.
		The avalanche swept the entire party 500m down the mountainside, over a series of drops, before they came to rest on the Grand Plateau.
	www.bordermail.com.au /newsflow/pageitem?page_id=672617 (471 words)

	avalanche disaster -- avalanche disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		avalanche disaster avalanche disaster and psychology are supplementary, irection-wise, should be the royalty of Scythia he it to tea in the hotel obtain some advantage for us around that same night...
		31 miles from the summit was buried in an avalanche of mud that killed 22,000 of the townís 29...
		Avalanche and disaster dogs have to be downright stubborn at times to communicate with their handlers that they have located scent.
	www.noaccidents.com /avalanchedisaster (3662 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Mount Cook
		Last month, a 27-year-old Romanian died in a fall on Mount Cook, two New Zealanders and two Australians died in an avalanche on neighbouring Mount Tasman on December 31, and four Latvian climbers were killed on Mount Cook in early December...
		Wellington - An avalanche swept six climbers off New Zealand's second highest mountain, killing four of them and injuring two, police said on Wednesday.
		Wellington - A South African man was seriously injured on Monday when he fell 50m while climbing New Zealand's highest mountain, said police.
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Mount_Cook_Mountain.html (1228 words)

	americasroof news - hiking and climbing the highest mountains and hills in the world and U.S.
		A DEADLY avalanche on one of New Zealand's highest peaks sent two Australian adventurers and two local guides plunging 500m to their deaths yesterday.
		Perth heart specialist Andrew Platts, 31, and Tasmanian trekker David Gardner, 40, died when a wall of snow and ice threw them down the face of Mt Tasman on NZ's south island.
		Survivor Mark Dosser, who suffered broken ribs, a broken sternum and a collapsed lung, said the avalanche took only seconds to envelop the party.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=3897&messageid=1072926164 (145 words)

	9&10 News: New Zealand - Climbers Killed In Avalanche (12/31/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		(Wellington, New Zealand-AP) -- An avalanche swept across one of New Zealand's tallest mountains Wednesday, killing four climbers and injuring two others.
		Rescuers initially said the avalanche occurred on Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in the country.
		Mount Tasman, on New Zealand's South Island, is 500 miles southwest of the capital city Wellington.
	www.9and10news.com /News/Story.asp?StoryID=32325 (308 words)

	Kiwi News from around the world.
		A Christchurch ski insrtuctor killed in an avalanche in France saved his friends life minutes before he was swept away.
		Timothy Purvis, aged 29, was one of eleven people killed in avalanches in the French Alps this week.
		Purvis dug him out but both of them were then caught when a second avalanche struck.
	www.boarderzone.com /avalanche.htm (186 words)

	Avalanche Incident (CSAC) 020999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Christchurch ski instructor killed in an avalanche in France saved his friend's life minutes before he was swept away.
		Timothy Jon Purvis, 29, was one of 10 people killed in huge avalanches which thundered through ski resort areas in the French alps this week.
		Two others are missing after the avalanches, travelling at more than 100kmh, buried homes under tonnes of rubble.
	www.csac.org /Incidents/1998-99/19990209a-France.html (418 words)

	The Courier-Mail: All clear after avalanche (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Police and rescue teams spent several hours using long rods to probe the snow on Treble Cone's slopes for skiers possibly buried by the avalanche before declaring that nobody was caught in the snow slip.
		Skiers "were racing to get out of the way" of the snow slide, which police reported as being about 150m wide and 800m long, she said.
		The avalanche hit a day after New Zealand's Mountain Safety Council placed severe avalanche warnings on several high country areas in the South Island, including the slopes around Wanaka, following heavy snowfalls and two other avalanches earlier this week.
	www.couriermail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,10430643%255E1702,00.html (518 words)

	Migrant Ships Arriving In New Zealand 1861-1875
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	members.iinet.net.au /~perthdps/shipping/mig-nz2.htm (4886 words)

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