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Dorothy Fletcher
Dorothy Woodham Fletcher (formerly King, née Graham; 25 July 1927 – 10 August 2017) was a New Zealand historian. Biography Fletcher was born in 1927 to Alec and Isabella Graham, part-owners of Franz Josef Glacier Hotel at Franz Josef. Her parents had met in England during World War I; her mother was English and her father from South Westland. Fletcher grew up in Franz Josef, and went to boarding school in Christchurch at Rangi Ruru Girls' School. When World War II broke out, she returned to Franz Josef and helped her family run the hotel until they decided to sell the business in 1947. From 1947 to 1949, Fletcher studied horticulture at Massey Agricultural College, then returned to Franz Josef and worked at the post office, Department of Conservation office and the hotel. In the late 1970s she was appointed Westland National Park historian and developed a collection of historical items and records covering the development of the area and its people. The collection was late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuatara
Tuatara (''Sphenodon punctatus'') are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Despite their close resemblance to lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name ''tuatara'' is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". The single extant species of tuatara is the only surviving member of its order. Rhynchocephalians originated during the Triassic (~250 million years ago), reached worldwide distribution and peak diversity during the Jurassic and, with the exception of tuatara, were extinct by 60 million years ago. Their closest living relatives are squamates (lizards and snakes). For this reason, tuatara are of interest in the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes, and for the reconstruction of the appearance and habits of the earliest diapsids, a group of amniote tetrapods that also includes dinosaurs (including birds) and crocodilians. Tuatara are greenish brown and grey, and measure up to from head to tail-tip and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massey University Alumni
Massey may refer to: Places Canada * Massey, Ontario * Massey Island, Nunavut New Zealand * Massey, New Zealand, an Auckland suburb United States * Massey, Alabama * Massey, Iowa * Massey, Maryland People * Massey (surname) Education * Massey College, affiliated with the University of Toronto * Massey University, New Zealand * Massey High School, in Auckland, New Zealand Other uses * Massey Energy, an American coal-producing company * USS ''Massey'' (DD-778), a US Navy destroyer * Massey Brothers, a British coachbuilder based in Pemberton, Wigan, purchased by Northern Counties in 1967 * Massey product, a cohomology operation of higher order generalizing the cup product * Massey Ferguson, an American heavy equipment company * An alternative reading of Masei, the final parashah of the Book of Numbers See also * Massee Massee is the surname of the following people: * George Edward Massee (1845–1917), English mycologist, plant pathologist, and botanist * J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At Rangi Ruru Girls' School
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2017 Deaths
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1927 Births
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New Zealand Women Historians
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Copland Pass
The Copland Pass (el. ) is an alpine pass in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Known as Noti Hinetamatea by the indigenous Ngāi Tahu, the pass follows the route of the Makaawhio ancestor Hinetamatea and her sons Tātāwhākā and Marupeka. The Copland Pass is on a traditional tramping route connecting Mount Cook Village with the West Coast of New Zealand, south of Fox Glacier. The Copland Pass is located on the Main Divide and is thus located on the boundary of Aoraki / Mount Cook and Westland Tai Poutini National Parks. The Copland River on the western side of the Main Divide may have been named by the surveyor J. G. Roberts for Dr James Copland, an early settler in Otago. Edward FitzGerald and Matthias Zurbriggen crossed the Main Divide just further south in February 1895 and that pass, with an elevation of , has been named FitzGerald Pass. A month later, the mountaineer Arthur Paul Harper was the first non-Māori man to cross the slightly higher Copland Pass () a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macmillan Brown Library
The Macmillan Brown Library (also known by its Māori name ''Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown'') is a research library, archive, and art collection based in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. It is a library collection of national significance administrated by the University of Canterbury. The library is also a member of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. Overview The Macmillan Brown Library's collections consist mainly of items relating to the history of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It holds over 100,000 published items including books, audio-visual recordings, and various manuscripts, photographs, works of art, architectural drawings and ephemera. Some notable items in its collections include copies of Māori Land Court Records, official and government documents from various Pacific Islands states, trade union records, and the personal papers of various Members of Parliament and government ministers. Its art collection also has over 5,000 works, making one of the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander And Peter Graham
Alexander Carter Graham (1881–1957) and Peter Graham (1878–1961) were mountaineers, guides and hotel operators in New Zealand. They were instrumental in the establishment of the early New Zealand tourist industry and earned themselves worldwide reputations as climbers and guides. Graham family of Ōkārito Alec and Peter Graham were born at Three Mile Beach, Okarito, the fifth and sixth children of nurse and midwife Isabella and her husband from Paisley, Scotland, David Graham, a goldminer, storekeeper, Three Mile River ferryman and later a baker. The family made a farm at Waiho by Franz Josef Glacier. After their father died in October 1900 four of the six sons moved away from Ōkārito and the youngest, Alec and Peter, remained at the Waiho / Waiau farm. Now on her own, Isabella, as well as nurse and midwife, was postmistress, ran a store and took in paying guests. Alec and Peter made careers climbing and guiding visitors, and Peter joined the New Zealand Tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokitika Museum
Hokitika Museum is a museum in Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island in New Zealand, and is the West Coast's largest museum and archive. It is housed in the historic Hokitika Carnegie Library building. Exhibitions include information about the gold rush and the unique West Coast stone pounamu (greenstone) and its value to Māori. The museum also holds a significant photographic collection. Seismic strengthening requirements closed the museum in September 2019. According to the Westland District Council Web site the museum had not yet reopened. Origins Hokitika's population had rapidly increased in the 1860s due to the West Coast gold rush, so it was seen as fitting for it to have a museum. It started in two 'Museum Rooms' in the 1869 Hokitika Town Hall building, which was operated from at least 1877 by the Westland Institute. From 1900 the honorary curator of the museum was Dr Herbert Macandrew. The Museum Room was requisitioned by the Hokitika Borough Council i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massey University
Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or distance-learning students, making it New Zealand's second largest university when not counting international students. Research is undertaken on all three campuses, and more than 3,000 international students from over 100 countries study at the university. Massey University is the only university in New Zealand offering degrees in aviation, dispute resolution, veterinary medicine, and nanoscience. Massey's veterinary school is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association and is recognised in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Britain. Massey's agriculture programme is the highest-ranked in New Zealand, and 19th in Quacquarelli Symonds' (QS) world university subject rankings. Massey's Bachelor of Aviation (Air Tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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