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New Cyanometer

above: calculated average blueness of New Zealand’s sky (36/6/0/0)

Fur Seal Rookeries vs. Hoki Trawling Locations

via Carly Hitchcock

vizualize:

NZ Seafood Posters by Carly Hitchcock

sand “boils” in Christchurch, NZ, from last week’s earthquake

via Through The Sandglass

Best Rare-Bird pictures of 2010 at National Gepgraphic

and the unrelated, but far funnier, cameraman getting shagged by the kakapo

An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network - 

The animation begins at 3am on a typical Monday morning. A pair of blue squiggles depict the Airport buses shuttling late night travellers between the Downtown Ferry Terminal and Auckland International. From 5am, a skeleton service of local buses begins making trips from the outer suburbs to the inner city and the first ferry departs for Waiheke Island. Over the next few hours the volume and frequency of vehicles steadily increases until we reach peak morning rush hour. By 8am the city’s major transportation corridors are clearly delineated by a stream of buses filled with commuters. After 9am the volume of vehicles drops a little and stays steady until the schools get out and the evening commute begins. The animation ends at midnight with just a few night buses moving passengers away from the central city.

via Seeing Data

New Zealand Tiki Tour Stamps (2009)

via CreativeRoots

Christchurch Earthquake map - animation of the earthquake and aftershocks, by magnitude (circle size) and focal depth (color)