Southern Land, Southern People
Diverse, dynamic, beautiful, unique …
Southern New Zealand is an extraordinary region.
This book celebrates Otago Museum’s major new ‘Southern Land, Southern People’ gallery, opened at the end of August 2002. It offers a comprehensive insight into the character of the region – its astonishing landforms, lost fauna and flora, fossil record and boisterous climate – and the way people have explored this challenging landscape and utilised its natural resources.
Neville Peat
Neville Peat (1947–2026) was an award-winning New Zealand nature writer and biographer whose work explored the landscapes, wildlife and environmental history of Aotearoa New Zealand. His books also ranged across history and geography. The original edition of Wild Dunedin won the inaugural Montana New Zealand Book Awards Natural Heritage category in 1996. In 2007 he was awarded New Zealand’s largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers’ Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. He lived on the Otago Peninsula, close to the albatrosses, penguins and sea lions that featured in his writing.
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Wild Rivers 
Wild Fiordland 
Wild Central 
Queenstown 
Kiwi 
Detours 
Seabird Genius 
Wanaka 
Stewart Island Rakiura National Park 
Wild Dunedin