Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : SPOILS OF THE LAND : For nearly two centuries we have bell-bent on harvesting New Zealand’s bounty. How much load can our natural systems take without breaking?
CONTENTS - Departments : EDITORIAL / VIEWFINDER [Gallipoli / GEONEWS [Ripples in space, Photoshopped fossils, fluid physics] / CYCLE TRAILS [Rimutaka cycle trail] / TRAVEL [Great Lake Taupo] / WEATHER [Danger Isles] / PROFILE [Geoff Harrow] / LIFE [Rising tide] / BOOKS [World War II from Above, Entanglements of Empire] / HISTORY [The Chinese question] / IN THE FIELD [Peter James Quinn] / ON REFLECTION [Is wilderness elitist?]
CONTENTS - Features :
SPECIAL FEATURE : NATURAL VALUES [For 200 years the Hauraki Plains and Firth of Thames have been bent to the commercial interests of man. Today, the region is a case study for the carrying capacity of land and sea. How resilient are our natural systems, and how much development is too much?]
EMPIRE OF THE SEA [Minerva Reefs are the closest coral atolls to New Zealand, the site of a failed libertarian state and the origin of some of New Zealand’s tropical species.]
BACK FOR THE GOLD [Three 21st-century trampers shadow three 19th-century prospectors in the hope of striking it rich.]
VALLEY OF THE WHALES [The North Otago limestone country holds one of the world’s most important fossil cetacean records, a coherent story of how whales and dolphins evolved in the Southern Ocean.]