auckland
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Waiheke Island
We were glad to get out of Auckland, if only for the day. The city lacked the vibrancy we’d expected of New Zealand’s economic capital, and despite the jungle of construction sites in the CBD pointing to the concentration of… Continue reading
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Maungakiekie, One Tree Hill
It’s easy to understand how a bustling settlement could have existed on Maungakiekie. Buildings, food stores and plantations would once have lined the artificially terraced slopes and the extensive views from its summit would have made it easily defendable as… Continue reading
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Maungawhau, Mount Eden
Maungawhau, or Mount Eden, is the highest point on the Auckland isthmus, one of the 14 Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau , the ancestral mountains of Auckland. The volcanic cones upon which Auckland is built are of profound importance to… Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Flights
Everyone accepts that air travel is unnatural. No living creature, human or otherwise, has evolved to traverse this world with the speed we can by plane. Before this week the longest flights I had been on were to North America;… Continue reading
Dead Academic 