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COVER : The black-browed mollymawk is one of four albatross species which nest on subantarctic Campbell Island. Mollymawks are actually small albatrosses. Their cup-like nests are often used year after year and are composed of mud and grasses.
CONTENTS - Features :
LIFE ON CAMPBELL ISLAND - The sub-antarctic island paradise in the ‘furious fifties’ where birds, beasts and meteorologists mingle among megaherbs;
DINGLE’S TOUGHEST JOURNEY - A 1200km trek for Telethon to test the reforming effect of outdoor adventure on six young violent offenders;
WILD HORSES - People and plants are the only problems for the hundreds of feral horses roaming free in the Kaimanawas;
LOOKING INTO GLASS - How white silica sand makes its way from Northland’s Parengarenga Harbour into our glass;
WALKING THE KEPLER - the spectacular 65km track that’s drawing people by their thousands to Fiordland National Park;
GOAT ISLAND REVISITED - What it’s like in the marine reserve above and below the waterline;
Contents - Departments :
FROM THE PUBLISHER [celebration and discovery]; LETTERS [messages from supporters]; GEONEWS [TVNZ’s remote operated vehicle; nature festival in 1990; Bellamy down-under; the green gecko’s rare yellow progeny, Pandas pull the crowds; Humphrey the sea elephant returns; silver dollars for yellow-eyed penguin]; OUTSIDE [crossing the Tasman by kayak; second attempt on Everest]; SPACE[the barbecue stars]; PLACE NAMES [the legacy of George Moonlight and other goldminers]; WEATHER [Canterbury’s damaging nor’wester]; MUSEUMS [Murray Gunn’s Fiordland Private Museum at Hollyford]; PROFILE [Don Merton, champion of our endangered birds]; BOOKS [reviews of prehistoric New Zealand, Sylvia and Aurora Australis]; SALUTE [contributing writers, photographers and artists]; MINI ADS;