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A marvellous menagerie of zoological oddities
With no land-based mammals to hassle them, our birds and insects adapted and evolved in a wildly different fashion from their cousins.
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Drama in the bush
Tarawera Falls erupts from holes in the rock 35-metres up a cliff-face. It’s a truly weird and wonderful sight, best seen from below the falls.
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Those wacky wonderful wharf jumpers
The New Zealand Wharf Jumping Association (NZWJA) is a unified voice for one of the country’s more off-the-wall national pastimes – wharf jumping.
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A collection like no other
Myrtle decided to put a few paua shells around the living-room mirror, then added more and more over the years until every wall was plastered with thousands of pearly blue shells.
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Weird and Wonderful New Zealand
https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-directions/features/weird-and-wonderful-new-zealand/
We’ve put the spotlight on some truly weird and wonderful aspects of New Zealand, from unique landforms to quirky creatures. Check it out!
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A journey through time
Audience members at Time Cinema enjoy a truly historic cinema experience, starting with the national anthem God Save the Queen and followed by historic news reels and advertisements selling cars for a couple of hundred pounds.
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Believe it or not
In the 1920s oil prospectors were exploring the beech forest and discovered a dried-up stream bed with the unmistakable smell of natural gas. They dropped a match and the flames have been burning in this spot ever since.
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A beauty like no other
The NZeta has something that places its snout above other scooters of its time: Attitude, with a capital A.
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Fun and games
Norwegian-born artist Siv B Fjaerestad is working with public art producers Letting Space and Wellington City Council to create Projected Fields, enormous artworks on the fields of Macalister and Liardet Street Parks.
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Hot stuff
https://www.aa.co.nz/membership/aa-directions/features/weird-and-wonderful-new-zealand/hot-stuff/
Bubbling hotpools in the Whakarewarewa geothermal field have been used for hundreds of years for bathing, washing, warmth and also – impressively – for cooking.