Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Environment
by Vaughan Yarwood
New Zealand is a young country - its present shape is less than 10,000 years old. Hav-
ing broken away from the supercontinent of Gondwanaland (which included Africa,
Australia, Antarctica and South America) in a stately geological dance some 85 milli-
on years ago, it endured continual uplift and erosion, buckling and tearing, and the
slow fall and rise of the sea, as ice ages came and went.
Vaughan Yarwood is a historian and travel writer who is widely published in New Zealand and interna-
tionally. He is the author of
The History Makers: Adventures in New Zealand Biography
