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Sunday, 29 November 2015

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Rotorua Geothermal Area, North Island 

Earthly Musings [2015-11-29 21:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (270 visits) info

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There were just two more stops on this Smithsonian Journeys trip to Australia and New Zealand and both were on the North Island.. I had not previously been to the North Island so I was curious to see just how different it was from the South.Leaving Queenstown we got a great view of Lake Wakatipu. At 50 miles long, it is New Zealand's longest lake and one of the deepest at 1,250 feet. The mountains around the lake (center) are known as The Remarkables.These are the Canterbury Plains south of [...]

Middle-Earth Here on our Planet? Some Geo-thoughts After the Last Tolkien Movie 

Geotripper [2015-01-04 21:46:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (677 visits) info

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Mt. Ruapahu, an active volcano on the North Island of New Zealand A new world came into being a little over eighty years ago. It formed in the mind of an English scholar, a world with a vivid geography that was populated by a plethora of men, elves, dwarfs, orcs, goblins, dragons, and hobbits. It was a fully realized world with a multitude of unique languages, creation myths, and a
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