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• Life on the Fault Lines

  Marlborough's East Coast earthquakes Marlborough’s East Coast is cross hatched with fault lines so the large earthquakes of 2013 and 2016 should not have been surprising, although it is...

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• Wreck of the Penguin

  The worst shipwreck in New Zealand, during the 20th century, happened in Cook Strait and was of the regular passenger ship taking people from Picton to Wellington.   Penguin...

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• Kathleen Hemi

  Kathleen Hemi (1925 - 2010), known to many as Aunty Kath, died on the 22nd November 2010 at her Blenheim home. She was 85. kathleen Hemi.docx Kathleen Hemi. Image supplied...

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• Whittington Landon-Lane

  Whittington Landon Lane was born to Susan and George "Mizpah" Lane on the 14th of July, 1859 supposedly in the port town of Picton. A very eccentric name...

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• The 1884 plague of rats

  [admin/pages/]Early settlers in the Nelson Province faced many challenges. One of these was the rat problem – which exploded to plague proportions in 1884. PolynesianRatNZ Illustration of Polynesian Rat, Rattus...

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