Sounds like a great place for windmill erections. (the ecowackos know what that means. LOL!)
Natural shelter.
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Awesome article find. Amazing.
As an Australian, I must admit, I envy the Kiwis for the bounty of scenic beauty they enjoy.
A beautiful corner of the Shire.
Very cool! But why does each photo remind me of Don King?
It reminds me of the trees in Aruba
There used to be a grove of oak trees on the Texas coast in the vicinity of Rockport and Fulton that looked like this.
I haven't been down to Rockport in years so I don't know if they are still there, it would be a shame if they are not there.
There are similar trees along I-10 in the general area of the windmill farm near Palm Springs.
Wow
From my perspective, that’s a nice, warm, calm predictable climate at a low elevation. Looks comfortable and arable. So sheep can live without shelter there. That’s something. Here, last night, 100+ mph gusts from various westerly directions with temps below 20 F and a little spraying ice. No trees here. Before long, it will be way below 0 with windy days most of the time. Many days with gusts over 80 mph and a few each winter with gusts over 100 carrying the spraying ice.
That sign is a little off. In Google Earth I get latitude and longitude of 46 40 30 S and 169 00 07 E . Well, who knows, right?
But I also measured the distances and got 5171 and 4831, vs.
5140 and 4803 on the sign. The polar circumference is 40008, which I hit on the nose with Google Earth, finding 10002 for one quarter of it. Honestly, I did not have this number in mind when I made the measurements! The sign values add to 9943, of course.
Only after I looked it up did I recall that the original definition of the meter was the distance from the north pole to the equator, through Paris, of course!
BTW, this latitude corresponds almost exactly to Duluth, MN, mutatis mutandis.
Also BTW, when I was dragging the GE “ruler” to the south pole, I went directly through New Zealand’s Scott Base, adjacent to McMurdo Station.
