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LIST OF LOCALITIES. 

 GEOLOGY. 



Physiography. Kaipara Harbour and other North Auckland 

 inlets (drowned river-valleys) ; Lake Taupo ; Wellington (fault - 

 scarps, crush-zones, raised beaches, see p. 3), Muka-Muka Cliff, 

 Palliser Bay (9 ft. uplift of 1855 quoted by Lyell and Suess ; 

 Marlborough Sounds (drowned river-valleys) ; Kaikoura Mountains ; 

 Southern Alps (see p. 45) ; Arthur's Pass and Otira Gorge ; Buller 

 River and gorges ; Canterbury rivers (terraces and fans) ; Central 

 Otago (block mountains) ; fiords, Western Otago (drowned valleys). 



Glaciation Phenomena. Fiords, Western Otago ; Lakes Manapouri, 

 Wakatipu, Wanaka, Tekapo and neighbourhood. 



Glaciers. Tasman, &c. (Mount Cook Hermitage) (see p. 46) ; 

 Franz Josef (see p. 51) ; Fox (Central Westland) (see p. 46). 



Volcanoes. Active : Ngauruhoe (National Park) (see p. 32) ; 

 Tarawera ; White Island. Dormant: Ruapehu (National Park). 

 Extinct : Mount Egmont ; environs of Auckland ; Rangitoto. 



Igneous Rocks. Dunedin (see p. 53) ; Oamaru ; Banks Peninsula 

 (see p. 40) ; Dun Mountain, Nelson (see p. 36) ; Coromandel Penin- 

 sula. 



Fossiliferous Localities. Pliocene : Wanganui ; Petane and Ngaru- 

 roro River ; Motunau. Miocene : Pakaurangi, Kaipara Harbour ; 

 Mount Brown ; Pareora ; Oamaru. Older Tertiary : Waihao Forks ; 

 Hampden ; Wangaloa ; Weka Pass. Cretaceous : Waipara ; Amuri 

 Bluff ; Selwyn Rapids. Jurassic : Nugget Point. Triassic : Nugget 

 Point; Mount Potts (plants). Permo-Carboniferous : Dun Mountain, 

 Nelson. Silurian : Lankey's Gully, Reefton. Ordovician : Colling- 

 wood ; Preservation Inlet. 



Geysers and Thermal Phenomena. Rotorua and environs, Whaka- 

 rewarewa, Waimangu (quiescent) ; Waiotapu ; Wairakei ; Taupo. 



Limestone Caves. Waitomo. 



Gold. Waihi (quartz-mining) ; Blackwater, near Reefton (quartz- 

 mining) ; Rimu gold-dredge (near Hokitika). 



Coal. Huntly, Pukemiro ; Westport Coal Company (Denniston 

 and Millerton) ; State Coal, Greymouth ; Kaitangata. 



Kauri-gum. North Auckland. 



J. MARWICK. 



CHIEF PASSES OF THE SOUTHERN ALPS. 



- Harper's Pass (3,141 ft.). Chief pass used by Maoris in olden 

 times. Route via Hurunui River to Teremakau River. First 

 crossing of Alps by white man made by this pass in 1857 (Mr. Leonard 

 Harper) . 



Arthur's Pass (3,038 ft.). Waimakariri and Bealey Rivers to Otira 

 and Teremakau Rivers. Known to Maoris in former times but 

 seldom used. Present route to West Coast is over this pass. 



Browning's Pass (4, 815 ft.). At head of Wilberforce River (tribu- 

 tary of Rakaia) and leading over into Arahura River. 



