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    Moeraki is a small fishing village on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was once the location of a whaling station. In the 1870s,...
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    The Moeraki Boulders (officially Moeraki Boulders / Kaihinaki) are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut...
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    the Moeraki Boulders. These concretions are found eroding out of Paleocene mudstone of the Moeraki Formation exposed along the coast near Moeraki, South...
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  • The Moeraki Branch was one of the most short-lived railway lines in New Zealand. It left the Main South Line between Oamaru and Dunedin and served Port...
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    Lake Moeraki is a small lake on the Moeraki River on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. State Highway 6 runs along its northern edge. The...
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    The Moeraki River is a river of the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows west from the Southern Alps, veering northwest as it approaches...
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    climbing performed on small rock formations or artificial climbing walls Moeraki Boulders, unusually large spherical boulders found in New Zealand Monolith...
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  • Moeraki was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago region of New Zealand, from 1881 to 1887. The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in...
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    State Beach Glass Beach (Fort Bragg, California) Greenwood State Beach Moeraki Boulders Purpose Statements. California Department of Parks and Recreation...
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    The Kātiki Point Lighthouse, also known as Moeraki Lighthouse, shone for the first time in 1878, following several accidents on the dangerous reefs around...
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    Rūnanga o Moeraki centres on Moeraki and extends from Waitaki to Waihemo and inland to the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana. Moeraki marae in located...
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    Boulders, Hokianga Māori Bay giant pillow lava, Muriwai Lion Rock, Piha Moeraki Boulders, Otago The Nuggets, Catlins Coast, Otago Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki...
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    their holidays with her mother's family at Moeraki, on the Otago East Coast, and Hulme identified Moeraki as her turangawaewae-ngakau, "the standing-place...
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    (calabash) were turned into stone at Moeraki in the South Island, where they can still be seen in the form of the Moeraki Boulders.: 179  The canoe itself...
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    shepherdi), iNaturalist, Retrieved on August 07, 2022 Oscar Thomas, 2021, Moeraki Pelagics to Otago Canyons / Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 2021, BirdingNZ...
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  • Fleur's Place was a New Zealand seafood restaurant on the shore of Moeraki's bay, in an old whaling station. The restaurant was founded in 2002 by notable...
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    cement ran aground two miles northeast of the Katiki Point Lighthouse near Moeraki. The Port Chalmers-based tug Dunedin was dispatched to the scene and by...
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    supplementary food when schools washed ashore, especially common around Moeraki in Otago. Māori traditionally believed that strandings were caused by the...
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  • Middlemarch Midhirst Millers Flat Milton* Mimi Minginui Moana Moawhango Moenui Moeraki Moerewa* Mōkau Mokoia Morrinsville* Mosgiel* Mossburn Motatau Motueka*...
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  • Island of New Zealand. Leonard-Higgins attended Moeraki Primary School in the small coastal community of Moeraki. She won a scholarship for secondary school...
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    g., Porpoise Bay, Curio Bay), and Otago coasts (e.g.Karitane, Oamaru, Moeraki, Otago Harbour, and Blueskin Bay). Māui dolphin are typically found on...
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    Territory, Australia Moorea, French Polynesia Milford Sound, New Zealand Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand Browns Island, New Zealand Lake Wānaka, New Zealand...
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    Hampden Hillgrove Inch Valley Kaika Kātiki Macraes Makareao Meadowbank Moeraki Moonlight Flat Morrisons Nenthorn Palmerston Pleasant Valley Shag Point...
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  • towns was: Waikouaiti: 1,620 Palmerston: 1,246 Karitane: 720 Dunback: 320 Moeraki: 682 4,588 Live in the 5 main centers 403 Live in the rural areas Total:...
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    houses, wharenui, and tekoteko of the Māori people Botanical gardens and Moeraki Boulders The round hut and mud brick style buildings of the continent  Egypt...
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    it became waterlogged off the Waitaki River mouth, lost food baskets at Moeraki beach and ended up wrecked at Matakaea (Shag Point) where it turned into...
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    i.e. those found along the Cannonball River in North Dakota and near Moeraki, South Island, New Zealand, also have been misidentified as petrospheres[citation...
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    Wollaston Hutton with the type locality given as Dunedin and Dunedin and Moeraki in New Zealand. The specific name microlepidota means "small scaled" which...
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    of Guatemala Klerksdorp sphere Kugel fountain List of megalithic sites Moeraki Boulders Olmec colossal heads Embassy of Costa Rica, Washington, D.C. "Six...
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    Chicken", a topiary bird standing several metres tall, next to which is a Moeraki boulder "egg". The son of Burt Munro, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the...
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