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Date: Jun 1 16:26 2017

New Zealand's Southern Alps	Permalink

Extreme geothermal activity discovered beneath New Zealand's Southern Alps An international team, including University of Southampton scientists, has found unusually high temperatures, greater than 100°C, close to the Earth's surface in New Zealand - a phenomenon typically only seen in volcanic areas such as Iceland or Yellowstone, USA. The researchers made the discovery while boring almost a kilometre into the Alpine Fault, the major tectonic boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates - running the length of the country's South Island. The team was working to better understand what happens at a tectonic plate boundary in the build-up to a large earthquake. Read more __________________

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Date: Dec 13 07:20 2012

RE: New Zealand	Permalink

Abel Janszoon Tasman sighted New Zealand on 13 December, 1642. Spoiler __________________

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Date: Nov 23 07:16 2012

New Zealand’s seafloor	Permalink

New map reveals New Zealands seafloor in stunning detail NIWA's new Undersea New Zealand map provides a unique insight into the shape of the seafloor in one of the world's most extensive marine jurisdictions. More than 90 per cent of New Zealand's continental mass is underwater. We have one of the largest Exclusive Economic Zones and Extended Continental Shelf in the world - more than 570 million hectares of diverse marine environment, 21 times the size of our land mass. Read more The chart will be publically available from Monday 26 November. For more information visit:www.niwa.co.nz/publications/posters. __________________

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Date: Apr 24 06:51 2012

RE: New Zealand Geological Map	Permalink

Major New Geological Map Series is Completed An 18-year-long project to produce a new series of geological maps of New Zealand has just finished. Known as QMAP (Quarter million scale map), the project started in 1994 and has produced 21 geological maps covering all parts of New Zealand. Read more __________________

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Date: Dec 13 00:00 2011

New Zealand	Permalink

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC (United East India Company). His was the first known European expedition to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands. On 13 December Abel Janszoon Tasman sighted land on the north-west coast of the South Island, New Zealand, becoming the first European to do so. Tasman named it Staten Landt on the assumption that it was connected to an island (Staten Island, Argentina) at the south of the tip of South America. Proceeding north and then east, he stopped to gather water, but one of his boats was attacked by Maori in waka (canoes) and four of his men and several Maori were killed. Archeological research has shown the Dutch had tried to land at a major agricultural area, which the Maori may have been trying to protect. Tasman named the bay Murderers' Bay (now known as Golden Bay) and sailed north, but mistook Cook Strait for a bight (naming it Zeehaen's Bight). Two names he gave to New Zealand landmarks still endure, Cape Maria van Diemen and Three Kings Islands, but Cabo Pieter Boreels is now known as Cape Egmont. Read more __________________

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