Dunedin omgeving

Reisgids

Beste reistijd

Foto's

Praktisch

Mouraki Boulders 1

Dunedin omgeving,
Nieuw-Zeeland


Boven Dunedin aan de westkust van het zuider eiland van Nieuw Zeeland ligt Moeraki. Deze plaats in befaamd om zijn mysterueuze bouders.

info:
The Moeraki Boulders are a number of huge spherical stones, found strewn along a stretch of Koekohe Beach near Moeraki, a small settlement just south of Hampden on New Zealand's Otago coast. These boulders are grey-coloured septarian concretions which have been exposed through shoreline erosion from black mudstone coastal cliffs that back the beach. They originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments during the early Paleocene some 60 million years ago.

The boulders weigh several tonnes and are up to three metres in diametre.

Maori legend tells that the boulders are remains of calabashes, kumaras and eel baskets that washed ashore after the legendary canoe, the Araiteuru was wrecked at nearby Shag Point (Matakaea).