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Located in alpine reserve in the Inland Kaikoura ranges, Mount Tapuae-o-Uenuku,(2885m) is the sacred mountain of the Kurahaupo tribes of Marlborough. The story of its origins dates back to AD825, when two chiefs, Makautere and Tapuae-o-Uenuku, were searching for food-gathering places along the Kaikoura coast and inland. The Waiau-Toa and Waiau-Uwha Rivers reminded Tapuae-o-Uenuku of the tears of his wife, left behind in Hawaiki. The mountain near where the two rivers meet during the spring thaw, bears the chief's name.
New Zealand's Most famous Mountaineer Remembered his first Mountain
Throughout his life Hillary remembered the first mountain he climbed, the 9,645-foot Mount Tapuaenuku -- "Tappy" as he called it -- in Marlborough on New Zealand's South Island. He scaled it solo over three days in 1944, while in training camp with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II.
"I'd climbed a decent mountain at last" he said later. Like all good mountaineers before him, Hillary had no special insight into that quintessential question: Why climb? "I can't give you any fresh answers to why a man climbs mountains. The majority still go just to climb them."
Fog bank approaching land from the Bay of Fundy, Butland Lookoff, Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, Canada
Semi-alpine river meadows of Molesworth Station. Conservation, farming and recreation go hand in hand at Molesworth, New Zealand's largest farm. The 180,787 hectare station runs the country's biggest herd of beef cattle, numbering up to 10,000. (Dept. of Conservation NZ)
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Molesworth Station.
Molesworth is the source of the Clarence, Wairau and Acheron Rivers.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Molesworth Station.
Molesworth is the source of the Clarence, Wairau and Acheron Rivers.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Morrison, Colorado - July 30, 2021: Steps leading up to the Red Rock amphitheater music concert venue in Colorado
Interstate 70 cuts through the San Rafael Reef, the name given to the eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell, a geological feature on the Colorado Plateau in central Utah. The San Rafael Swell is composed of steeply tilted layers of sandstone that have been eroded into fins, domes, cliffs and deep canyons, including slot canyons a few feet wide and hundreds of feet deep. (Wikipedia)
Looking along the beach rocks on the Atlantic Coast, North Devon.
This is an HDR image made from 3 (-1 to +1) exposures processed in photomatix.
Panum Crater. This small volcanic cone is the northernmost and youngest of a chain of 30 craters aligned along a fissure extending more than 10 miles. The fissure is probably one of the faults in the Sierra Nevada system. Panum is a nearly perfect rhyolitic plug-dome volcano, comprised of a cone of pumice and ash with a central plug of obsidian, formed during an eruption about 600 years ago. Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve. Near Lee Vining, Mono Co., Calif.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Walking from Mohave Point towards The Abyss the view across the canyon begins to open up to the west and you can see (and sometimes hear) the Colorado River far below.
Molesworth Station.
Molesworth is the source of the Clarence, Wairau and Acheron Rivers.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
A geologist's or rock-hound's paradise... A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Dexter Drumlin a 311-foot drumlin and a 38-acre open space reservation in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The reservation includes a small brook which is a tributary of the Nashua River. and is managed by The Trustees of Reservations. The reservation includes open fields and offers scenic views of surrounding rural Lancaster. The Dexter Drumlin is a classic example of a drumlin formed during the last ice age.
Gill that tumbles westwards off Abbotside Common, plunging into Fossdale before entering into Wensleydale
Molesworth Station.
Molesworth is the source of the Clarence, Wairau and Acheron Rivers.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
Interesting toadstool rock formation along the Toadstools trail - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
The sun warms the famous Cathedral Rock as it sets during the fall in Sedona, AZ with Oak Creek in the foreground.
Sand dunes in the Sossusvlei region of Namibia. (3437)
Muzzle Station, one of the mosted isolated farms in New Zealand is on the western side of the Clarence River. A history of glaciation can be read in the landscape of terminal and lateral moraines, glacial outwash plains, hanging valleys and waterfalls, cirque basins, tarns and arêtes.
Several major active faultlines transect the property causing mountain uplift and more recently triggering landslides and rockfalls.
The Beehives are sandstone formations weathered by the eroding (Aeolian erosion) forces of wind and water.
© Lynn Roebuck
Quail Flats. Muzzle Station
This part of the Clarence Reserve is now leased by Colin and Tina Nimmo and family who own Muzzle Station on the western side of the Clarence. At Quail Flat you can still find the original cookhouse, bakers oven, huts and woolshed built in the 1860s. With the exception of the old woolshed (still in remarkably sound condition) and the oven, these buildings are still used for the day to day operations of the station when required.
A geologist's and a rock hound's paradise. The raft is dwarfed by cliffs containing millions of years of earth's evolvements.
the distinctive swirling folded limestone cliffs that make up the mountain of Slieve Roe in the Burren.
The Burren landscape is made up of sedimentary limestone, an ancient sea bed that has now become large areas of limestone pavement. At Slieve Roe these limestone layers have been folded into huge swirls as a result of collisions of tectonic plates...
(here endeth the geography lesson)