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COVER : A gannet preening its breast feathers in the breeding colony south of Muriwai Beach, west Auckland. Here, as at most other gannetries around the country, the birds are on the increase.
CONTENTS - Features :
RANGITOTO [Just minutes from Auckland by fast ferry, Rangitoto is a unique mosaic of raw lava and lush vegetation with a scattering of quaint old baches around the coast];
THE COAL RUSH [With dam sites in short supply, Maui gas almost exhausted, oil prices rising and renewable energy still getting off the ground, is coal thefuel of the future? Perhaps, but it’s in demand for other uses too];
GANNETS [Because gannet are not uncommon around the coast we tend to neglect them, but in beauty, flying prowess - and even in size - they rival all but the largest albatrosses];
GALLIPOLI - A HILL TOO FAR [Gallipoli today is an antipodean tourist attraction, but when ANZAC troops landed on the rugged peninsula in 1915, they got a warm welcome of a different sort];
THE LAST POST [After World War One, every town and district in the land was keen to remember its slain on a local memorial. Hundreds were erected, varying from unostentatious small obelisks to the Auckland War Memorial Museum];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; EDITORIAL; VIEWPOINT [Oil]; NEWS [Aussie mossie, NZ storm petrel]; WEATHER [February floods]; MUSEUMS [Naval gazing]; IN THE FIELD;