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MURIWHENUA ...
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The Far North of New Zealand is a landscape of many contrasts.
Shaped and blended by time and the elements with
a shoreline
that began 150,000 years ago. The Far North then reassembled
little more than a series of islands connected to the rest of New
Zealand by low inter-linking sandspits. Current and counter current |
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depositing sand and silt, the wind driving it increasingly
inland.
Various changes in sea level aided the process
further and a new
landmass slowly formed. Kauri forests were to then grow twice on
this
mass, the first to disappear below the sea, the second lost to
the ravages of fire. With the passage of time the area stabilised |
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and exists today as the Aupouri
and Karikari Peninsulas.
For the first arrivals to this new landscape, Muriwhenua adopted
great significance. The harsh beauty and spiritual values
intertwining,
history and legend that still echo strongly of time long past.
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