Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : Solo : Rowing across the Tasman, alone [Shaun Quincey rows the Tasman];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Camilla Stoddart, Chris McLennan]; GeoNEWS [Students, pigs, bugs, snails, grass]; ARTEFACT [Castaway comforts]; WEEKEND TRAMPS [Lake Angelus]; GREAT DRIVES [Christchurch-Akaroa]; WEATHER [Scott of the Antarctic]; PROFILE [Nancy Athfield]; THE MIND [Music and language]; BOOKS [Gold, rabbits, Landfall]; FLASHBACK [Circus]; IN THE FIELD [Field Weather]; PARTING SHOT [Te Araroa];
CONTENTS - Features :
SOLO [New Zealand Geographic Trust grantee Shaun Quincey is attempting to become the first to row solo from Australia to New Zealand];
WILDING PINES [Mass-planted in the 1950s to combat erosion, Pinus contorta, is spreading throughout New Zealand. Agencies are using a heady brew of choppers and chainsaws to control it];
JELLYFISH [Though abundant in New Zealand waters, we know relatively little about jellfish];
SUMMER HARVEST [Combine harvests, pivot irrigators that can water 100 rugby fields at once, and robotic milking sheds are rapidly changing Cantabrian agriculture, and the landscape];
CIRCUS [The modern circus is a far cry from the early ‘carnie’ days of animals and anatomic anomalies, but graduates of Canterbury Polytech’s CircoArts course still revel in it’s magic];
CHEW CHONG [The Chinese immigrant Chew Chong pioneered the Taranaki dairy industry];