Tararua Tramping Club

	Tararua Tramping Club Tararua is a name used in several contexts: The Tararua Range, in the southeast of New Zealand's North Island The Tararua District of New Zealand, named for the Range. The Tararua Forest Park, New Zealand's first forest park The SS Tararua, a 19th-century passenger steamship. * ''Tararua'' (spider) is a genus of the Agelenidae spider family. See also Tararu Tararu is a former gold-mining village on the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand. State Highway 25 runs through it; Te Puru being about to the north, and Thames about to the south. Tararu has a boat ramp, a 91-dwelling reti ... , a township in the northern North Island of New Zealand {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tararua Range The Tararua Range, often referred to as the Tararua Ranges or Tararua, is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand. The Tararua Range runs northeast–southwest for from near Palmerston North to the upper reaches of the Hutt Valley, where the northern tip of the Remutaka Range begins. It is separated in the north from the southern end of the Ruahine Range by the Manawatu Gorge. Most of the Range is wilderness, protected as the Tararua Forest Park. The highest peak in the Tararua Range is Pukeamoamo / Mitre (not to be confused with Mitre Peak) at . Other prominent peaks include Mount Bannister at and Mount Hector at , which is named after the scientist Sir James Hector. Its Māori name is Pukemoumou, or 'hill of desolation'. Geography The Tararua Range is divided into two distinct northern and southern regions. Each of these is dominated by a central mountain peak: Arete in the north and Hector in the south. A total of ten rivers rise on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tararua District The Tararua District is a district near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council. It has a population of and an area of 4,364.65 km². The Tararua District Council was created by the amalgamation of the Dannevirke Borough, Eketahuna County Council, Pahiatua Borough Council, Pahiatua County Council and Woodville District Council in the 1989 local government reforms. The district's northwest boundary runs along the top of the Ruahine Range; its south-east boundary is the Pacific Ocean. The catchment of the Manawatu River generally defines the north and south extremities. The catchment is also the reason the majority of the district is in the Manawatū-Whanganui Region, although traditionally many of the people of the district regard themselves as living in either Hawke's Bay (in the north) or Wairarapa (in the south). Towns and regional government The district's chief town is Dannevirke, settled by immigrants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tararua Forest Park Tararua Forest Park, often called the Tararuas is a protected area in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its area is , and its highest point, a peak called Mitre, is at 1571 m above sea level. It was established in 1954, as New Zealand's first Forest Park, and is managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC) under the Conservation Act. Tararua Forest Park includes more than three-quarters of the Tararua Range, and its boundaries extend north from New Zealand State Highway 2. Project Kaka A DOC project launched in 2010, named Project Kaka aims to reduce numbers of rats, stoats and possums over 22,000 ha of the park. The pests will be controlled by aerial drops of 1080 poison with the goal of restoring native plant, insects and birds including kaka, kakariki and kereru. The project involves the use of sodium fluoroacetate (1080), trapping and wildlife monitoring. In 2013, DOC found that the programme had led to a "significant increase in the call counts of several bird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	SS Tararua SS ''Tararua'' was a passenger steamer that struck the reef off Waipapa Point in the Catlins on 29 April 1881, and sank the next day, in the worst civilian shipping disaster in New Zealand's history.New Zealand Disasters – SS Tararua Shipwreck', Christchurch City Libraries. Accessed 20 January 2008. Of the 151 passengers and crew on board, only 20 survived the shipwreck. Ship The ''Tararua'' was a screw-driven steamer with two engines, measuring long, wide and deep. Built in Dundee by Gourlay Brothers in 1864, her original capacity was 523 tons (net) but alterations later increased her net tonnage to 563 tons.Tararua (1881) , excerpt from Ingram, C.W.N. (1990) ''New Zealand Shipwrecks: 195 years of disasters at sea'', Beckett Books: Auckland, on the Dive New Zealand website. Accessed 22 January 2008. History < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tararua (spider) ''Tararua'' is a genus of South Pacific funnel weavers first described by Raymond Robert Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educa ... & C. L. Wilton in 1973. Species it contains seven species: '' Tararua celeripes'' (Urquhart, 1891) — New Zealand '' Tararua clara'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand '' Tararua diversa'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand '' Tararua foordi'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand '' Tararua puna'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand '' Tararua ratuma'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand '' Tararua versuta'' Forster & Wilton, 1973 — New Zealand References Agelenidae Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Raymond Robert Forster {{Agelenidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Agelenidae The Agelenidae are a large family of spiders in the suborder Araneomorphae. Well-known examples include the common "grass spiders" of the genus ''Agelenopsis''. Nearly all Agelenidae are harmless to humans, but the bite of the hobo spider (''Eratigena agrestis'') may be medically significant, and some evidence suggests it might cause necrotic lesions, but the matter remains subject to debate. The most widely accepted common name for members of the family is funnel weaver. Description The body length of the smallest Agelenidae spiders are about , excluding the legs, while the larger species grow to long. Some exceptionally large species, such as ''Eratigena atrica'', may reach in total leg span. Agelenids have eight eyes in two horizontal rows of four. Their cephalothorax, cephalothoraces narrow somewhat towards the front where the eyes are. Their abdomens are more or less oval, usually patterned with two rows of lines and spots. Some species have longitudinal lines on the dorsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

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