Topic: Chatham Islands

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Bird facts: Fiordland penguin

Fiordland Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) The Fiordland penguin, sometimes known as the 'Thick-billed penguin' or the 'Fiordland Crested penguin' is a shy and reclusive bird and of all of the penguin species perhaps the most timid. Fiordland penguins are one of the group ...
As people across the South Pacific headed for the hills on Sunday fearing giant waves, Australian swimmers and surfers did the opposite and flocked to the beach."Initially everybody got out, however, people seem to be going back in and the tsunami ...

Fossil treasures of the Chatham Islands

The article examines the relevance between the fossil shells of the Late Cretaceous age and the fossils in Chatham Island, New Zealand. spenceTurner L116 fossil teasuies of tiie Chatham Islands Recent fossil finds on the Chatham Islands are exciting palaeontologists as Dr ...

Te Kooti

1893, Bay of Plenty), Maori guerrilla and founder of the Ringatu religious movement in New Zealand. Imprisoned on the Chatham Islands, he studied the Old Testament and in December 1867 announced that he had been divinely commanded to found a new church.

Petrel

petrel, any of a number of seabirds of the order Procellariiformes, particularly certain members of the family Procellariidae, which also includes the fulmars and the shearwaters. A single egg (rarely two) is laid on the soil surface or in a burrow or ...