Dunedin. Taiaroa Headland.A shag colony below the Royal Albatross Centre. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Dunedin. Taiaroa Headland.A shag colony below the Royal Albatross Centre. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | St Kilda.The entrance road to the Otago Peninsula passes along the edge of St Kilda a famous beach suburb of Dunedin. St Kilda is a Scottish as it comes. Surprisingly, the suburb was not named directly after the Scottish Islands of St Kilda, but after the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Land developer George Scott named the area when he arrived in NZ in 1862 from Melbourne. (St Kilda in Melbourne was named after a sailing ship the Lady of St Kilda in 1841.) The real St Kilda is a small group of islands in the Outer Hebrides, towering to 1,400 feet high in places, 100 miles west of the Scottish mainland and subjected to the worst of the Atlantic gales. The islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray have been occupied for 2,000 years but earlier Neolithic settlement evidence has also been found there. These islands have never had more than 180 people on them and the lands were owned by the Marquis of Bute. The resident of St Kilda lived an isolated life, caring for sheep, weaving their tweeds, and growing some barley for whisky and oats for porridge. This lifestyle was interrupted in the 19th century as tourists discovered the isles bringing diseases and new ideas and exchanging tweeds and bird’s eggs for money. Disease reduced the population and after World War One many of the males who had left to join the war effort did not return and the population fell to just 73 by 1920. The influenza epidemic and falling yields from their crops caused by lead pollution from their use of seabird carcasses and peat ash in the manure, meant the population dropped to 37. After the unfortunate death of a young woman of 30 who was evacuated to the mainland for hospital treatment in 1930 the remaining residents petitioned to be removed to the mainland. All that was left behind were the stone buildings and the Boreray sheep breed, believed to be several thousand years with Neolithic breed origins. The Marquis of Bute donated the archipelago to the National Trust in 1956 and the islands still have no permanent residents, only scientist doing temporary work there. St Kilda is now a scientific, and conservation area with no public access. The islands provide nesting habitat for gannets, puffins and other sea birds but not albatrosses. They have their only mainland nesting colony in the world on the Otago Peninsula. Royal Albatross Centre. The history and origins of the centre begin with a teacher, Lance Richdale who lived in Dunedin from 1928. He did scientific research into the Royal Albatross, Yellow Eyed Penguin and Shearwaters after 1938 when Richdale became interested in ornithology. He spent up to 15 hours a day for weeks protecting the albatross colony eggs. He then studied in the US and England on various international scholarships whilst producing 105 scientific papers on albatross, penguins and petrels. He spear headed a drive to protect the albatross colony from 1938 onwards but his success only came in 1983 the year he died when Otago Branch of the Royal Society of NZ established the Taiaroa Head observatory and sanctuary. During breeding time tours are not permitted into the nesting area and breeding time is October! The Centre provides visual information on the life cycle of the Royal Albatross. These magnificent birds who have a wing span up of to 3.3 metres (nearly 11 feet) travel almost 200,000 kms a year seldom touching land. They arrive at Taiaroa Head in September, lay eggs and breed in October, sit on their eggs until January, feed and protect their hatchlings of January/February and then continue this until September when the fledglings fly off. The adult birds return to Taiaroa Head every year to begin the process again. The fledglings return after about three years to begin their first breeding cycle at Taiaroa Head. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-10-18 07:56:00 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/100) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |