Continuing our day at the Auckland Museum...
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| The smaller of two community halls on display |
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| More beautiful carving |
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| More cases upon cases of artifacts |
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| Helpful model #27,692; of a Maori compound and pa (fortified village) |
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| Maori tribes |
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Great display on the relations among the various Pacific languages (Austranesian
they called them); many, if not most, Maori words look and sound like they came
straight from Hawaii...not exactly nearby |
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| More artifacts |
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| And canoes |
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| The larger of the two community halls |
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| Inside |
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Moving right along...Hillary's ice axe on the
Everest summit climb |
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| Sir Ed |
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| The carving continues upstairs |
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| So how do you explain this to your 2nd graders? |
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| Alas, the only kiwi we saw was dead |
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Vicki examines a reconstructed Moa, the largest of birds, over
3m tall; extinct since before the Europeans arrived (at least
there's one thing we didn't kill off) |
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| Various other NZ feathered bi-peds |
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| The kea, one of our favorite birds; "pining for the fiords" |
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The museum also covers marine life, geology (mostly volcanoes), and, very briefly,
mammals; and many other things |
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Major exhibits on the NZ role in the various world and other wars; one of the
earliest sea battles in WWII was when the cruisers Exeter, Achilles, and Ajax
cornered the German battleship Graf Spee off the River Plate and saw her
scuttled; the Achilles was an NZ vessel |
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A major figure in the Battle of Britain was Keith Park, commander of the 11th
fighter group, which saw most of the action of that time; another Kiwi...among
the "happy few" |
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Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, which powered the Spitfire, and, later, and more
effectively, the P-51 Mustang |
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Near the beginning of our 2018 NZ campaign was a Spitfire; so it is fitting to
see one near the end too |
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