Australia’s notorious Port Arthur

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Australia has been celebrating its convict past — again. In 2010, 11 dinky-di former convict sites were inscribed in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. They...

Marc’s magnificent molehill

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UNESCO, in conjunction with the International Astronomical Union, has decreed 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). It marks the 400th anniversary...

[H2O]3

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Among the many venues hosting the Beijing Summer Olympics, few are more likely to attract comment as the National Aquatics Centre. This new...

Auckland’s aging coathanger

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When I first came to Auckland some 50 years back, the only way to take a vehicle to the North Shore was to trundle...

The Alhambra

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Given the Middle-eastern tensions that bedevil the world today, we may sometimes forget that for eight centuries Spain was an Islamic nation. The...

Saving light

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Each year more than 120,000 people visit Cape Reinga and its lighthouse. The Cape itself is certainly worth checking out as it is currently...

Broken but not subdued

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For generations Christchurch’s cathedral has been the city’s symbol, its focal point and, in many ways, its very identity. Of all New Zealand...

The Baroque glories of Schloss Eggenberg

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Europe has more magnificent castles than you can shake a stick at. Few, however, match the glories of Austria’s Schloss Eggenberg. Apart from...

Constructing a new ‘House of Pain?’

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Dr Kerry Rodgers has been uncovering Dunedin's soon-to-be Forsythe Barr Stadium In July 2009, with the lawyers paid off, ground could finally be...

Raising the bar on Old Farmer Thames

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The Thames Barrier is the world’s second largest movable flood barrier. It was constructed between 1974 and 1984 at Woolwich Reach to provide flood...