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COVER : Crested blenny peeks out of its lair, a corroded railing pipe of the Rainbow Warrior wreck. The ship, sunk in 1987 near the Cavalli Islands in Northland, provides homes for an increasing number of marine organisms.
CONTENTS - Features :
NEW ZEALAND’S SEARCH FOR OIL [It’s 25 years this year since drilling vessel Discoverer II found New Zealand’s largest oil and gas deposit off the coast of Taranaki, now known as the Maui field. This and other Taranaki oil fields supply much of our petroleum needs, but for how much longer?];
THAR AND CHAMOIS - MONARCHS OR MISFITS [Introduced to New Zealand at the beginning of this century, tahr and chamois have made themselves at home in the high country of South Island, making friends and enemies in the process];
FROM RUSSIA WITH RESPECT [A little-known Russian expedition to New Zealand in 1820 yielded some unique insights into the life and times of Maori in Queen Charlotte Sound];
WRECK TO REEF - THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE RAINBOW WARRIOR [Bombed by French saboteurs in 1985 because of her protests against nuclear testing in the Pacific, the Greenpeace ship now attracts divers to her last resting place : the Cavalli Islands];
ZEALANDIA - MOTHER OF THE NATION? [Long before the kiwi became this nation’s emblem, a Britannia clone was representing New Zealand in everything from the coat of arms to her rolled oats];
ARCTIC IMPRESSIONS [”My coldest, longest and most severe journey” says adventurer Dingle of his latest expedition, a circumnavigation of the Arctic];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [a new dinosaur]; WEATHER [blame it on El Nino]; SPACE [lucky strikes]; OPEN COUNTRY [Mac the musterer]; COMING UP [What’s in store]; MINI ADS;