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St Clair School
St Clair is a coastal residential suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located on the Pacific Ocean coast five kilometres from the city centre on the southwesternmost part of the coastal plain which makes up the southern part of the urban area, and also climbs the slopes of Forbury Hill immediately to the west of this plain. According to the New Zealand Census, St Clair's population in 2023 was 2,470. Geography St Clair's main geographical features are St Clair Beach and the promontory of Forbury Hill, which rises above the plain. The summit of the hill lies within the grounds of St Clair Golf Course, in the west of the suburb. Forbury Hill's flanks include a large cliff face one kilometre inland from the beach and a rocky headland which juts into the Pacific Ocean. The small outcrop of White Island lies to the immediate south of St Clair beach. The inland cliff, which runs parallel with and to the west of Forbury Road, was the site of a quarry in the early days of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbury, New Zealand
Forbury is a small residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is south-southwest of the city centre and lies immediately to the north of St Clair, New Zealand, St Clair, between it and Caversham, New Zealand, Caversham. The suburb is low lying, having originally been marshy land reclaimed in the later 19th century. As such, it is often prone to flooding. It lies at the northwest corner of a plain that stretches across South Dunedin and St Kilda, New Zealand, St Kilda known locally as "The Flat". The land rises to the northwest of the suburb to form Caversham Valley, and immediately to the west the land rises abruptly in a cliff face that is located one kilometre inland from St Clair Beach. The suburb stretches to the east of this cliff across the plain towards South Dunedin. Apart from Caversham and St Clair, Forbury is bounded by St Kilda in the south, Kew, Otago, Kew in the west, and South Dunedin in the east. The name Forbury is somewhat confusing, as it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Beach, Otago
Ocean Beach () is a long sandy beach which runs along the Pacific Ocean coast of south Dunedin, New Zealand. It stretches for some three kilometres from St Clair in the southwest along the coast of St Kilda to the foot of Lawyers Head in the east. The beach is a popular recreation area for swimming, surfing, and walking. Geography The beach is divided into three roughly equal lengths, known as St Clair Beach, Middle Beach, and St Kilda Beach. Access is easiest at the St Clair end, with steps and ramps down to the beach from St Clair Esplanade. The esplanade is the site of several cafes and restaurants. At its end, also the western end of the beach, is the St Clair salt-water swimming pool, the city's oldest pool, opened in 1884. The pool has been upgraded on several occasions, most recently in 2002. A short walking track leads southwest from the pool to Second Beach, a small stony beach sitting at the bottom of the basalt cliffs of Forbury Head. St Clair Beach is a popular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Sect
Veronica, Veronika, etc., may refer to: People * Veronica (name) * Saint Veronica * Saint Veronica of Syria Arts and media Comics and literature * ''Veronica'', an 1870 novel by Frances Eleanor Trollope * '' Veronica (novel)'', a 2005 novel by Mary Gaitskill * ''Veronica'', an Archie Comics imprint Film, radio, and television * ''Veronica'' (1972 film), a Romanian musical film directed by Elisabeta Bostan * ''Verónica'' (2017 Mexican film), a psychological thriller by Carlos Algara and Alejandro Martinez-Beltran * ''Verónica'' (2017 Spanish film), a Spanish horror film *Veronica D'Costa, a fictional character in the 2012 Indian film ''Cocktail'', portrayed by Deepika Padukone * Veronica (media), a Dutch media brand ** Radio Veronica, a Dutch offshore radio station broadcasting from 1960–1974, the origin of the brand ** Radio Veronica (Sky Radio), a Dutch radio station ** Veronica TV, a Dutch television station ** Veronica, now RTL 7, a former Dutch television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poroporo
''Solanum aviculare'', commonly known as kangaroo apple or New Zealand nightshade, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae and native to New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. Description ''Solanum aviculare'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to tall. The leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide, or sometimes lobed, broadly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long with lobes long and long. Both sides of the leaves are the same shaped of green, with a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in groups of up to ten on a peduncle up to long, each flower on a pedicel long. The calyx is with triangular lobes long and the petals blue-violet and fused, forming a star-like pattern in diameter. Flowering mostly occurs in spring and summer, and the fruit is an orange-red to scarlet, oval to elliptic berry in diameter. Taxonomy and naming ''Solanum aviculare'' was first described in 1786 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngaio (tree)
''Myoporum laetum'', commonly known as ngaio ( , ) or mousehole tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to New Zealand. It is a fast growing shrub or small tree with lance-shaped leaves, the edges with small serrations, and white flowers with small purple spots and 4 stamens. Description Ngaio is a fast-growing evergreen shrub or small tree that sometimes grows to a height of with a trunk up to in diameter, or spreads to as much as . It often appears dome-shaped at first but as it gets older, distorts as branches break off. The bark on older specimens is thick, corky and furrowed. The leaves are lance-shaped, usually long, wide, have many translucent dots in the leaves and edges that have small serrations in approximately the outer half. The flowers are white with purple spots and are borne in groups of 2 to 6 on stalks long. There are 5 egg-shaped, pointed sepals and 5 petals joined at their bases to form a bell-shaped tube long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taupata
''Coprosma repens'' is a species of flowering shrub or small tree of the genus ''Coprosma'', in the family Rubiaceae, native to New Zealand. Common names include taupata, tree bedstraw, mirror bush, looking-glass bush, New Zealand laurel and shiny leaf. Description The habit of this species varies markedly with its situation. In exposed situations, such as cliffs, it assumes a prostrate habit, while in more sheltered areas it can grow as a small tree up to 8 metres in height. It has thick and very glossy leaves which vary considerably in size, depending on exposure to the elements. The leaf margins are recurved, occasionally to the extent that the leaf may be cylindrical in cross-section. The shiny leaves aid its survival near coastal locations. ''C. repens'' is dioecious. Flowers are produced in spring and summer, with the male flowers appearing in dense, compound clusters, and the female flowers in smaller clusters. Male flowers have a funnel shaped corolla that is 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tī Kōuka
''Cordyline australis'', commonly known as the cabbage tree, or by its Māori name of ''tī'' or ''tī kōuka'', is a widely branched monocot tree endemic to New Zealand. It grows up to tall with a stout trunk and sword-like leaves, which are clustered at the tips of the branches and can be up to long. With its tall, straight trunk and dense, rounded heads, it is a characteristic feature of the New Zealand landscape. It is common over a wide latitudinal range from the far north of the North Island to the south of the South Island. It grows in a broad range of habitats. The largest known tree, growing at Pākawau, Golden Bay / Mohua, is estimated to be 400 or 500 years old, and stands tall with a circumference of at the base. Known to Māori as , the tree was used as a source of food, particularly in the South Island, where it was cultivated in areas where other crops would not grow. It provided durable fibre for textiles. Hardy and fast growing, it is widely planted in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rewilding (conservation Biology)
Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions. A key feature of rewilding is its focus on replacing human interventions with natural processes. Rewilding enables the return of intact, large mammal assemblages, to promote the restoration of trophic networks. This mechanism of rewilding is a process of restoring natural processes by introducing or re-introducing large mammals to promote resilient, self-regulating, and self-sustaining ecosystems. Large mammals can influ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Cargill
Mount Cargill, known in Māori as ,Place names'' on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 4 January 2012 is a volcanic outcrop which dominates the skyline of northern Dunedin, New Zealand. The peak is named for Captain William Cargill, an early leader of the Province of Otago. Māori legend tells of the mountain showing the profile of a prominent warrior, and indeed from Dunedin Buttar's Peak and Mount Cargill between them do form the outline of a reclining figure, with the nearby Buttar's Peak being the head and Mount Cargill the body. Panoramic views of Dunedin and its surrounding area are visible from the summit, making it a popular, if difficult to access, site. A single rough road ascends to the peak, and several popular walking tracks also ascend the slopes. Mount Cargill is topped by a telecommunications station and mast, the Mount Cargill Transmitting Station. The mast is Dunedin's tallest man-made structure. Geography Mt. Cargill is situated some 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackhead (New Zealand)
Blackhead is a promontory on the coast of Otago, New Zealand. It lies within the city limits of Dunedin, some southwest of the city centre. The promontory extends some 500 metres into the ocean, and rises to a height of a little over . Māori language, Māori names for Blackhead include ''Te Wai o Tinarau'' (the waters of Tinarau) and ''Makereatu'' (to leave a seed).GC39JRR Blackhead Basalt Columns " ''geocaching.com''. Retrieved 7 March 2019. The area of coast to the east of Blackhead is rugged and steep, with many cliff prominences. The tourist attraction of Tunnel Beach lies in this area, 3 km from Blackhead. To the west, the coast is more low-lying with beaches. The community of Waldronville, New Zealand, Waldronville is located here, some 1500 metres from Blackhead, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
