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Moeraki Boulders
The Moeraki Boulders are a large number of spherical concretions, found strewn across a beach at Moeraki, a small settlement just south of Hampden on New Zealand's Otago coast. The boulders grew from central cores over the course of several million years.
Maori legend tells that the boulders are calabashes and food baskets from a legendary canoe.
References
Dann, C. & Peat, N. (1989). Dunedin, North and South Otago. Wellington, NZ: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01438-0.
Last updated: 10-11-2005 09:31:51
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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