These 8000-year-old tree stumps poking out of the sea at the mouth of the Kaiwhata River on the Wairarapa coast provide an irreplaceable and visually striking record of an ancient totara forest that flourished here when the sea level was considerably lower than today. Following the last Ice Age, the advancing sea probably killed the forest. The totara remains are not protected. Photo: Lloyd Homer
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Forest and Bird, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 August 1989, Unnumbered Page
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65These 8000-year-old tree stumps poking out of the sea at the mouth of the Kaiwhata River on the Wairarapa coast provide an irreplaceable and visually striking record of an ancient totara forest that flourished here when the sea level was considerably lower than today. Following the last Ice Age, the advancing sea probably killed the forest. The totara remains are not protected. Photo: Lloyd Homer Forest and Bird, Volume 20, Issue 3, 1 August 1989, Unnumbered Page
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