Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Fragile Flora - What Cook’s botanist found in New Zealand
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Chris Morton]; GeoNEWS [Counting bids, hut, teapot, lingo]; ARTEFACT [Scrapbooks]; WEEKEND TRAMPS [Mt Hobson]; GREAT DRIVES [Haast-Wanaka]; WEATHER [Swarms]; PROFILE [Ranton van Helden]; THE MIND [Synaesthesia]; BOOKS [Friedlander, aviation, pakeha history]; FLASHBACK [Camping]; IN THE FIELD [Robotank]; PARTING SHOT [Yeah Right!];
CONTENTS - Features :
K-Pg BOUNDARY [A major catastrophe extinguished the dinosaurs and everything large than a rat on planet Earth. Kaikoura’s rocks - which were imprinted by this event 65 million years ago - identify the culprit];
WETLANDS [Treasured by Maori as a larder but maligned by settlers as an obstacle to farming, our rich wetland habitats have been drained and polluted];
EMERGENCY RESPONSE [Every night St Johns paramedics rush to the aid of the sick, the injured and the reckless];
FAIRY TERNS [New Zealand’s most endangered species, numbering a mere 36 individuals, is also one of New Zealand’s best kept secrets];
JOSEPH BANKS [A wealthy socialite school in Enlightenment values, Banks embarked as Cook’s botanist on Endeavour’s famous voyage of discovery]