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Fig. 6 1988-89 journey by the author on upper left and 2006-07 journey by Lani Evans, Helen
Nortje and Bronwen Waters on upper right (spatial scale). Note the only significant difference in
route is in the lower region of Fiordland. 1988-89 journey on lower left; 2006-07 journey on
lower right (temporal scale). The gap between each dot is one eighth of the total number of days
each journey took
difficult to ford Waitutu and Wairaurahirihiri Rivers, and also technological
changes in the type of equipment carried which demand less time to be spent
making camp, making fires and finding food. From a design perspective such
findings suggest the development of pathway and equipment solutions that might
encourage 'slow travel' akin to recent directions in 'slow food' and 'slow learn-
ing', as these may assist in a re-expansion of the temporal scope of such places.
In Fig.
6
this cartographic method is applied to describing another set of two
journeys that followed very similar routes along the length of Aotearoa New Zea-
land's South Island. However in the first (undertaken by the author in 1988-1989)
the difficult terrain of Fiordland was negotiated on foot, while the latter journey
(undertaken by Lani Evans, Helen Nortje and Bronwen Waters in 2006-2007)
