After spreading ceased in the Tasman Sea in the Late Cretaceous, reorganisation of the Pacific-Australia plate boundary within the New Zealand region saw the development of several sedimentary basins during an extensional ...

The syntopic skink species Oligosoma infrapunctatum and O. lineoocellatum appear to have different trappability estimates at Lake Station, Nelson. Long-term mark-recapture data has shown that O. lineoocellatum has a ...

Fallow deer (Dama dama, L.) were introduced into the Wakatipu area in c.1887 and quickly spread throughout the Greenstone and Caples Valleys. By 1937 periodic culling of animals was undertaken to control numbers. Recreational ...

The identification of a previously unstudied collection of approximately 5000 garments at the Canterbury Museum initiated an exploratory study of a part of the collection. The collection included garments and associated ...

Research has consistently shown that there are a number of negative stereotypes held by Pakeha towards Maori. However, some of these studies have been flawed by low participant identification rates of Maori. Furthermore, ...

Deposits of the Reefton Goldfield, West Coast, New Zealand, are hosted on N-NE striking, upright folds of the Greenland Group. High-grade quartz lodes are hosted on axial planar shears, typically have short strike lengths, ...

Bottlenose dolphins in Doubtful Sound represent a unique opportunity for a relatively longterm study of wild, known individuals near the southern extent of their worldwide range, and unaffected by incidental mortality. In ...

The Otago Peninsula is part of the Dunedin Volcanic Complex and the Dunedin Volcanic Group, of Miocene age. Tephra and a suite of alkali basalt magma began erupting in the Sandfly Bay area. The Dunedin Volcanic Complex ...