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COVER : Emperor penguin chicks keep off the freezing ice by perching on their parents feet. As eggs, they were incubated on these feet for two months during the Antarctic winter, and here they will stay until they are two months old and ready to move into chick creches.
CONTENTS - Features :
THE QUEEN OF STREETS [Auckland’s main street was once a tree-lined stream to which moa and kakapo came to drink. Today it is lined with glass towers and used by everyone from businessmen to buskers]
BAIT! [on the South Island’s West Coast, virtually all work stops in September as the whitebait make their annual run in from the sea. What is it about these tiny slivers of life that rouses such passion among the Coasters]
KEEPING WATCH [During World War II a group of hardy men endured long, lonely vigils on New Zealand’s subantarctic islands, watching for enemy ships that (fortunately) never came]
STEAM AND BRIMSTONE [called the ‘weather vane of the Bay of Plenty’ because of its permanent plume of ash and steam]
EMPERORS OF OCE [Emperor penguins are the only creatures on earth which face the full fury of the Antarctic winter. Not only do these birds remain on the ice during the four months during which the sun never shines, but they incubate their eggs during this, the coldest part of the year]
CONTENTS - Departments : LETTERS; GEONEWS [summer of the algae]; SPACE [dances with dioscuri]; WEATHER [foggy weather]; SALUTE;