Matthew D. Polson Portuguese explorers Antonio d’Abreu and Francisco Serrano reportedly first saw New Guinea in 1512, although the Spaniard Don Jorge de Meneses is credited with the actual discovery…

Lee Davidson The advent of mountaineering is a very recent phenomenon, one which is not undertaken in the spirit of economic exploitation. A study of its development and its context…

Michael L.S. Bagge The myth that Carl Linnaeus fell on his knees at his first sight of gorse growing in England ‘thanking heaven for having created a flower so beautiful’…

Rachael Egerton Since the first recorded releases of rabbits in 1838, the rabbit has been many things to many people. Efforts to eliminate it continue, and disagreement persists over how…

Julian Kuzma The winter of 1895 did not begin well for sheep farmers. New Zealand lamb sold for only five pence a pound on the Smithfield market, mutton for four…

James Beattie The twenty years between 1840 and 1860 saw the growth of a permanent European presence in the Dunedin area, thanks to full-scale planned colonisation begun in 1848 by…