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- Title
- Moa's Ark : Building the Ark
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
‘Moa's Ark' set sail 80 million years ago. David Bellamy becomes an ancient mariner and retraces the voyage of the islands of New Zealand (using contemporary science as his guide). In this first episode he finds out why New Zealand is called the Shaky Isles, gets face to face with the "living fossil" the tuatara, is inspired by meat pies, and discovers geography as he competes in the annual Coast to Coast race over the Southern Alps — with directional and gorse eradication aid coming from leg...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1990
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/moas-ark-building-the-ark-1990
- Related subjects
- conservation / wildlife / bellamy / geology / birds / trees / flora / fauna / nhnz / nature / tuatara / coast to coast / meat pies / southern alps / ceismic / ferry / robin judkins / karanga / 1990 / 90s / nineties / sir richard owen / richard owen / british / british museum of natural history / natural history / natural history museum / palentology / geomorphology / geologist / native birds / moa / flora and fauna / wrybill / new zealand / david bellamy / powhiri / maori / māori / tamatea marae / marae / hongi / kakapo / lupin / kiwi / weta / climate change / environment / ecosystem / rainforest / forests / mountain / buttercup / natural sciences / plate tectonics / tectonics / auckland / volcanic / volcano / volcanic eruption / rangitoto / kidney fern / white island / jet boat / tarawera / rotorua / whakaari / geothermal / tourism / moss / alage / sulfur / pink and white terraces / taupo / tongariro / tongariro national park / napier / earthquake / napier earthquake / wellington / interislander / interisland ferry / alps / native forest / goat pass / taramakau / sphagnum moss / podocarp / braided river / waimakariri / river / kayaking / cycling / canterbury / christchurch / ecology / botany / scree / seismology / seismic
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