Otago Museum Tropical Forest 360°
The Tropical Forest, Dunedin’s only rainforest, is filled with colourful exotic butterflies, lush flora and temperatures upwards of 28°C, and Discovery World is a space to get hands-on with science.
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Breakfasts; Christmas parties; social functions; weddings.
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Tropical rainforest in Otago museum
In the Otago Museum (Dunedin, New Zealand) they have made a tropical rainforest with beutiful butterflies.
Otago Museum updated forest video
Looking for things to do in Dunedin? Whether you've got an hour to fill or a day to explore, the Otago Museum is one of Dunedin's best-loved attractions. You'll find all sorts of programmes, colourful events and regularly updated exhibitions. Loved by children of all ages, there's something for everyone, whether you're visiting Dunedin, looking for family entertainment and FREE children's activities, or filling in a spare hour.
Encounter rare objects and discover extraordinary treasures with inspirational exhibitions and displays showcasing an outstanding collection. Explore the culture and nature of Otago and open a rare window onto the fascinating past and present of indigenous Māori. Enrich your experience with a guided tour from one of our knowledgeable Communicators.
The Otago Museum has been a source of education, wonder and delight since 1868. You can be part of that history too. Experience old favourites like the Animal Attic, as well as many innovations -- switch on to science in Discovery World, our interactive science centre then enter the lush, living environment of the Tropical Forest to come face to face with thousands of exotic live butterflies.
Share your experience with friends, browse the Museum Shop for gifts, or relax and catch up at the Museum Café. The Otago Museum is also available for venue hire and perfect for weddings, balls, cocktail events and conferences. Ignite your interest and inspire your mind at the Otago Museum, open daily from 10am -- 5pm.
Dead Otago Museum butterflies will not be replaced
Butterflies at Otago Museum are being left to die in a $2.5 million dollar upgrade of Discovery World and the Tropical Forest.
The Museum says no new butterflies will be released during construction and those in the forest will be left to live out their natural lives.
Birds and tarantulas will remain in an animal-friendly construction zone.
Evaluation session #11 - Tūhura Otago Community Trust Science Centre / Otago Museum
Tūhura – New Zealand’s only fully interactive science centre, planetarium, multi-screen laser-activated digital gallery and tropical butterfly enclosure, all under one roof. Otago Museum’s former Discovery World Tropical Forest is now home to over 45 new hands-on science interactives and a refreshed Tropical Forest butterfly house. Approximately two-thirds of the new interactive exhibits were designed and manufactured by Hüttinger.
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Otago Museum -- centre of Dunedin Museum -- New Zealand Museum
The Otago Museum is located in the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is adjacent to the University of Otago campus in Dunedin North, 1,500 metres northeast of the city centre. It is one of the city's leading attractions, with over 480,000 visitors each year, and has one of the largest collections in New Zealand.
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Otago Museum, 419 Great King St, Dunedin, 034747474
Discover the richness and vibrancy of the southern region through outstanding collections covering culture, nature and science.
Whether you have an hour to spare or a day to enjoy, you'll find something to inspire, enlighten or excite you.
Motorcycle Tours in New Zealand by Ayres Adventures
We’ve been sharing this gem of a motorcycling paradise with riders for eight years. Word is getting around – as riders who have experienced New Zealand return to tell friends of their discovery. They rave about well-engineered roads, incredible scenery, friendly people, world-class food and fine accommodations. What's it like to ride a motorcycle in New Zealand? New Zealand seems to have been designed by a motorcyclist, for motorcyclists. Tucked away at the bottom of the South Pacific, it is the hidden treasure of the motorcycling world. In New Zealand, it’s never necessary to “pay your dues” in order to reach great motorcycling roads – they’re all great! The landscape changes with nearly every turn. A single day may include rugged mountains, lush farmlands, volcanic plateaus, ancient rain forests, pristine blue lakes and the sparkling waters of the South Pacific and Tasman Sea.
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Donated exhibits child's play for Dunedin Hospital
Children in Dunedin Hospital paediatric care have received a much-needed boost today as installations from Otago Museum's Discovery world were donated.
Milford Sound - Cruise Trip -New Zealand - (South Island)
Situated on the west coast of the South Island, Milford Sound is a fusion of spectacular natural features with amazing visual cues around every corner
The Great Campervan Roadtrip - Queenstown - 2 of 5
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BLACK SAND BEACH - Travel New Zealand - Vlog #49
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On the way to Mount Taranaki, TJ and Me were passing amazing black beach coastlines. In Whanganui we checked out the Durie Hill Elevator and the creepy Elevator Tunnel with an amazing echo!!!!!
We ended up in Stratford, very close to the Mout Taranaki volcano!
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Papua New Guinea Travel Video
Papua New Guinea Travel Video - Travelling in PNG can be challenging. With almost no Travelism infrastructure and limited information available in books and on websites, it can feel like youre stepping into the great unknown. But this is exactly why travellers find this country so compelling. Nothing is contrived for Travelists and every experience is authentic - even the main island of Bougainville is a largely DIY travel experience. The striking natural beauty and myriad complex cultures offer some riveting and truly life-affirming experiences. The island of New Guinea, of which Papua New Guinea is the eastern part, is only one-ninth as big as Australia, yet it has just as many mammal species, and more kinds of birds and frogs. PNG is Australias biological mirror-world. Both places share a common history going back tens of millions of years, but Australia is flat and has dried out, while PNG is wet and has become mountainous. As a result, Australian kangaroos bound across the plains, while in PNG they climb in the rainforest canopy.
For a glimpse into PNGs fascinating tribal cultures, the Highlands is where you should head (the town of Tari is a good place to see traditional Huli wigmen), while the Central, Oro Milne Bay Provinces are home to gorgeous reefs and historic wartime sites - including the countrys foremost attraction, the Kokoda Track. Also part of these eastern provinces, and about as far off the beaten track as you can get, the DEntrecasteaux Islands are like the land that time forgot, mountainous, jungly and totally undeveloped. The gritty capital Port Moresby, on the other hand, is big and sprawling and even a bit intimidating until you get under its skin and see past the bad press.
PNG is one of earths megadiverse regions, and it owes much of its diversity to its topography. The mountainous terrain has spawned diversity in two ways: isolated mountain ranges are often home to unique fauna and flora found nowhere else, while within any one mountain range you will find different species as you go higher. In the lowlands are jungles whose trees are not that different from those of Southeast Asia. Yet the animals are often startlingly different -- cassowaries instead of tapirs, and marsupial cuscus instead of monkeys.
The greatest diversity of animal life occurs at around 1500m above sea level. The ancestors of many of the marsupials found in these forests were derived from Australia some five million years ago. As Australia dried out they vanished from that continent, but they continued to thrive and evolve in New Guinea, producing a highly distinctive fauna. Birds of paradise and bowerbirds also abound there, and the forest has many trees typical of the forests of ancient Gondwana. As you go higher the forests get mossier and the air colder. By the time you have reached 3000m above sea level the forests are stunted and wreathed in epiphytes. Its a formation known as elfin woodland, and in it one finds many bright honeyeaters, native rodents and some unique relics of prehistory, such as the giant long-beaked echidna. Above the elfin woodland the trees drop out, and a wonderland of alpine grassland and herbfield dominates, where wallabies and tiny birds, like the alpine robin, can often be seen. It is a place where snow can fall and where early morning ice coats the puddles.
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New Zealand RoadTrip 2014
Tommy Chelsea Minyoung and Sergey go on a road trip in New Zealand
Running Sheet: New Zealand Trip 28th January - 6th February 2014
Day 1: 28-Jan-14
07.00am Kingford Smith International Airport/Check in NZ Airline
01.15pm Arriving at Queenstown International Airport/pick up a car
03.00pm Check in at St Moritz Queenstown Hotel
**After that we can wondering around in the town..
Day 2: 29-Jan-14
10.00am Kawarau Bridge Bungy Centre Queenstown
01.00pm Heading to Lake Te Anua
03.00pm Check in at Top10 Holiday Park Hotel
04.00pm Quick Trek to Lake Manapouri
Day 3: 30-Jan-14
09.00am Arriving at Milford Sound Wharf, Southland
12.00pm Heading to Bluff for a quick photo/ heading to Dunedin
**Using Chaslands HWY on the way to Dunedin
06.00pm Check in at Mercure Dunedin
Day 4: 31-Jan-14
08.00am Otago Peninsula/Penguin Place/Royal Albatross Centre
10.00am Heading to Hawea Lake - Thunder Creek Fall - Franz Josef
06.00pm Check in at Rainforest Retreat
Day 5: 01-feb-14
09.00am Franz Josef Glacier Guides Tour
01.00pm Heading to Kaikoura via Greymouth
09.00pm Check in at Alpine Pacific Holiday park
Day 6: 02-Feb-14
10.00am Whale Watch Kaikoura
12.00pm Heading to Jasmine Cottage Picton for a quick check in
02.00pm Heading to Abel Tasman National Park
**Should visit Golden Bay as well
Day 7: 03-feb-14
06.30am Hop on Ferry to Wellington (**Inter-island ferry)
09.00am Arriving at Wellington/pick up a car/heading to Rotorua
05.00pm Check in at Novotel Rotorua Lakeside
**Check out Polynesian Spa
Day 8: 04-Feb-14
09.00am Ruakuri Cave, Waitomo Caves Road
10.00am Glowworm Caves, Waitomo Caves Road
04.30pm Te Puia/ Maori Culture Centre
**Trilogy booking will save your wallet
Day 9: 05-Feb-14
09.00am Hobbiton Movie set Tour; Trilogy booking
09.00pm Arriving at Cape Reinga
03.00am Check in at Novotel Auckland
**Long drive
Day 10: 06-Feb-14
10.00am Auckland City
03.00pm Auckland International Airport/Return car at EuroCar
04.00pm Check in Emirates Airline
Tui tui tui
A rough selection of the tui footage i've collected at Orokonui
Climate and the Deep Blue Sea
Part 3 of the 2019 #UAScience lecture series #SearchingForCertainty
As oceanographers have added floating robots to our work from ships, we have discovered that global warming is really ocean warming. It is a triumph of earth system science that the mystery of the deep blue sea’s role in climate and weather is now measured and used to inform our everyday forecasts and our far distant projections. New robots, new sensors and new computer models are transforming how we measure and forecast the vast and accelerating changes in our earth’s climate. The next generation of biogeochemical floats that measure carbon, nutrients and chlorophyll will do for carbon what the first floating robots did for heat, allowing us to verify our new international carbon agreements for the top ten global economies.
Lecturer: Joellen Russell Associate Professor, Geosciences, University of Arizona
Creating a sanctuary: Tiritiri Matangi - Roadside Stories
Each year more than 30,000 people visit Tiritiri Matangi, an island sanctuary in the Hauraki Gulf. Previously farmed, Tiritiri Matangi has been replanted with almost 300,000 native trees, and is home to rare birds including takahē, stitchbirds and kōkako.
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Prime ministers and takahē,
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Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way -- their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit
List of natural history museums | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:34 1 Africa
00:00:42 1.1 Algeria
00:00:56 1.2 Angola
00:01:12 1.3 Botswana
00:01:24 1.4 Canary Islands
00:01:44 1.5 Egypt
00:02:00 1.6 Ethiopia
00:02:14 1.7 Kenya
00:02:28 1.8 Mozambique
00:02:41 1.9 Namibia
00:02:56 1.10 South Africa
00:03:58 1.11 Sudan
00:04:10 1.12 Tanzania
00:04:24 1.13 Tunisia
00:04:36 1.14 Uganda
00:05:04 1.15 Zimbabwe
00:05:17 2 Asia
00:05:26 2.1 China
00:06:38 2.2 India
00:07:26 2.3 Indonesia
00:07:39 2.4 Iran
00:08:23 2.5 Iraq
00:08:35 2.6 Israel
00:09:03 2.7 Japan
00:11:35 2.8 Jordan
00:11:46 2.9 Kyrgyzstan
00:11:59 2.10 Malaysia
00:12:14 2.11 Mongolia
00:12:32 2.12 Oman
00:12:44 2.13 Pakistan
00:12:56 2.14 Philippines
00:13:16 2.15 Qatar
00:13:28 2.16 Singapore
00:13:42 2.17 South Korea
00:14:04 2.18 Taiwan
00:14:34 2.19 Thailand
00:17:35 2.20 United Arab Emirates
00:17:48 2.21 Uzbekistan
00:18:00 2.22 Vietnam
00:18:16 3 Central America
00:18:25 3.1 Belize
00:18:38 3.2 Costa Rica
00:19:16 3.3 Dominican Republic
00:19:37 3.4 Grenada
00:19:48 3.5 Guatemala
00:20:19 3.6 Honduras
00:20:31 3.7 Nicaragua
00:21:26 3.8 Panama
00:22:24 4 Europe
00:22:33 4.1 Albania
00:22:45 4.2 Armenia
00:23:00 4.3 Austria
00:24:49 4.4 Azerbaijan
00:25:12 4.5 Belarus
00:25:29 4.6 Belgium
00:25:46 4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:26:00 4.8 Bulgaria
00:26:50 4.9 Croatia
00:27:50 4.10 Czech Republic
00:28:09 4.11 Denmark
00:28:35 4.12 Estonia
00:28:52 4.13 Finland
00:29:23 4.14 France
00:31:21 4.15 Georgia
00:31:44 4.16 Germany
00:35:08 4.17 Greece
00:35:45 4.18 Greenland
00:35:57 4.19 Hungary
00:37:14 4.20 Iceland
00:37:27 4.21 Ireland
00:37:52 4.22 Italy
00:40:51 4.23 Latvia
00:41:03 4.24 Liechtenstein
00:41:15 4.25 Lithuania
00:41:32 4.26 Luxembourg
00:41:45 4.27 Macedonia
00:41:58 4.28 Malta
00:42:11 4.29 Moldova
00:42:24 4.30 Monaco
00:42:36 4.31 Montenegro
00:42:50 4.32 The Netherlands
00:43:58 4.33 Norway
00:44:27 4.34 Poland
00:45:00 4.35 Portugal
00:46:21 4.36 Romania
00:49:15 4.37 Russia
00:50:21 4.38 Serbia
00:50:43 4.39 Slovenia
00:50:58 4.40 Slovakia
00:51:14 4.41 Spain
00:52:53 4.42 Sweden
00:53:55 4.43 Switzerland
00:54:57 4.44 Turkey
00:55:17 4.45 Ukraine
00:56:09 4.46 United Kingdom
00:56:18 4.46.1 England
00:57:49 4.46.2 Scotland
00:58:23 4.46.3 Wales
00:58:37 4.46.4 Northern Ireland
00:58:48 5 North America
00:58:57 5.1 Bermuda
00:59:10 5.2 Canada
00:59:18 5.2.1 Alberta
00:59:41 5.2.2 British Columbia
01:00:11 5.2.3 Manitoba
01:00:51 5.2.4 New Brunswick
01:01:02 5.2.5 Newfoundland
01:01:17 5.2.6 Nova Scotia
01:01:34 5.2.7 Ontario
01:02:04 5.2.8 Quebec
01:02:43 5.2.9 Saskatchewan
01:03:13 5.2.10 Yukon
01:03:30 5.3 Mexico
01:04:34 5.4 United States
01:04:43 6 Oceania
01:04:52 6.1 Australia
01:07:01 6.2 Indonesia
01:08:29 6.3 New Zealand
01:09:02 7 South America
01:09:11 7.1 Argentina
01:13:12 7.2 Bolivia
01:13:41 7.3 Brazil
01:15:04 7.4 Chile
01:15:29 7.5 Colombia
01:16:06 7.6 Ecuador
01:16:20 7.7 Guyana
01:16:32 7.8 Paraguay
01:16:45 7.9 Peru
01:17:04 7.10 Trinidad and Tobago
01:17:21 7.11 Uruguay
01:17:40 7.12 Venezuela
01:18:49 8 See also
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This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
South Island | Wikipedia audio article
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South Island
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through
audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
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The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers 150,437 square kilometres (58,084 sq mi), making it the world's 12th-largest island. It has a temperate climate.
It has a 32 percent larger landmass than the North Island so is sometimes referred to as the mainland of New Zealand, especially by South Island residents, but only 23 percent of New Zealand's 4.9 million inhabitants live there. In the early stages of European (Pākehā) settlement of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European population and wealth due to the 1860s gold rushes. The North Island population overtook the South in the early 20th century, with 56 percent of the population living in the North in 1911, and the drift north of people and businesses continued throughout the century.