Tuesday 9 October 2007

Greetings from New Zealand

This Hand of Geography KNOWS that New Zealand exists as it travelled all the way to NZ in August 2007 with its owner. These are the Moeraki Boulders which are located 40 km south of Oamuru on the east coast of South Island. They are septarian concretions which may have taken up to 4 million years to form in seabed sediments. Since the sea bed has been uplifted, forming part of the New Zealand land mass, the boulders have gradually been eroded out of the neighbouring cliffs, landing up on the beach. To the Maoris the boulders are round food baskets and water gourds which were washed up on the beach after the wreck of the great canoe Arai Te Uru.
Surely, proof of New Zealand's existence, unless anyone knows of other locations in the world with concretions up to 2.2m in diameter?

1 comment:

Alan Parkinson said...

That looks like Filey to me..