New Zealand Student Toursl
Mining & Milling Zone
Photo Gallery Adventures Geography Humanities
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Industries of gold,
coal,
timber and
jade
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Ghost towns and their memories, litter this zone. Declining communities struggle to build sustainable industries to replace the gold, coal and timber businesses of their wealthy times. Meet the optimistic, determined, hard working locals with a different culture and attitude to life. Feel a warmer and wetter environment once dominated by wild ocean waves and dense rainforests. |
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Adventure Activities Along the Worlds "Best Tourist Highway" visitors can explore mining and milling industries, visit Shantytown, have a laugh at the Bushman's Centre, climb the Skywalk tower, stop at old gold towns, or explore unique coastal features, a seal colony, glass factory, jade factory or the Pancake Rocks. The more adventurist can ride mud-mobiles or take a guided tour deep into limestone cave. more> |
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Geography This unique zone is being over turned and uplifted by massive tectonic collisions. Violent storms are arrested by the uplifting mountains release into hundreds of rivers that wash through faults and old glacier valleys concentrating gold and slicing coal seams. In the last ice age vast glacier outflows smothered the zone. The coast is very spectacular. more> |
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Humanities Living in this remote and inaccessible zone has been harsh for its inhabitants. Time-warps us back to the Maori jade gatherers followed by Victorian settlers seeking timber coal and gold. Slowly the gold ran out, Farms from the cleared rainforests failed and coal is now uneconomic. We pass ghost towns and fascinating communities with their own special, characters, stories, and struggles to to find financial sustainability. |
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