Architecture | Inhabitat
8 April 2016
The Seascape Retreat – a remote cabin on the Banks Peninsula designed by Auckland-based architecture firm Patterson Associates – boasts magnificent views, is built entirely from local materials and is 100% self-sufficient.
“The cabin is one…
New Zealand | Herald Sun | Lonely Planet
11 September 2014
In an extract from Lonely Planet New Zealand, Charles Rawlings-Way describes the country’s top eight must-see port destinations.
“Paris may be the city of love, but Auckland is the city of many lovers, according to…
Nature | New Zealand Herald (The)
4 June 2014
A German astronaut has tweeted a stunning picture of Banks Peninsula from space.
Dr Alexander Gerst, who has a Masters in Earth sciences from Victoria University, is traveling aboard the International Space Station.
“Nice…
Nature | Scientific American
30 January 2013
Farmer Francis Helps and his wife Shireen have converted much of their Banks Peninsula land into a safe haven for one of the word’s smallest penguins, the rare white-flippered penguin, also known as korora….
New Zealand | Boston Globe
18 December 2011
“Hector’s dolphins may be the smallest and rarest dolphins in the world, but they will seem larger than life when you are swimming nose-to-nose with them in the Pacific Ocean,” Boston Globe correspondent Kari Bodnarchuk writes….