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Hautere/Solander Island – 1933 and 2016 – In the footsteps of Edgar Stead (Part 12)

Edgar Stead (1881-1949) was a Canterbury naturalist famous (among other things) for exhuming the enormous Okarito blue whale skeleton now in Canterbury Museum, breeding the Ilam strain of rhododendrons and azaleas, and being an astute observer of New Zealand birds. His magnificent homestead ‘Ilam’ is now the Canterbury University staffRead more

By: Colin Miskelly

On: 8 Jun 2016

In: Science

Robert Falla and the Westland petrel

The museum’s fifth Director became our second knight. Te Papa turned 150 years old on 8 December 2015. To celebrate 150 years since the opening of the Colonial Museum in Wellington, the exhibition ‘You called me WHAT?!’ is open on Level 3 until the end of 2016. The exhibition, andRead more

By: Colin Miskelly

On: 6 May 2016

In: Behind the scenes, Science