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Hello, Bonjour, Kia ora!
I'm George, a New Zealander 🥝
currently living in France 🥖.
- My work/studies
- Open source technologies, environment, conservation, geography…
- My hobbies
- Typically involve exploring the outdoors, fitness and creativity… …
Do #nzpol contributors exist in echo chambers?
28 August 2022 Featured
As part of my Masters in Environmental Policy I did a course on Social Network Analysis—essentially analysing social structures by looking at the connections between people (or other things). For our…
Adventures in Kākāpō Land
20 December 2021 Featured
Recently I was lucky to spend two weeks on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, a forest-covered predator free nature reserve next to Rakiura/Stewart Island. About 14km^2 in size, with a high point of 250m, it…
Other Posts
Trip Report: Kungsleden
9 August 2022
A while back I heard that one of my friends, Felicia, was heading to the Arctic Circle in the north of Sweden for a month, working as an assistant at the Tarfala Research Station. This station…
Trip Report: In the shadow of The Haystack
3 March 2022
In early January 2022, scarcely a week before my scheduled departure back to France, I organised a tramp with Dad to Larrikin Creek Hut. This would likely be the last tramp in Aotearoa I would do for…
Te Araroa 2020/21
5 January 2021
From mid-September 2020 to early January 2021, a friend and I completed Te Araroa, a 3000 km trail stretching across the length of Aotearoa/New Zealand's two islands. Here's how it went.
Trip Report: Abel Tasman Inland Track
8 September 2020
Over an unusually warm late-winter weekend I decided to do Abel Tasman Inland Track—the lesser known cousin of the famous coastal track. This was a ‘training mission’ as part of my upcoming Te Araroa…