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- Curio_Bay abstract "Curio Bay is a coastal embayment in the Southland District of New Zealand, best known as the site of a petrified forest some 180 million years old. It also hosts a yellow-eyed penguin colony, arguably the rarest of penguin species, with approximately 1600 breeding pairs in the extant population. The bay, along with neighbouring Porpoise Bay, is home to the endemic Hector's dolphin. Southern right whales are occasionally observed offshore, as on numerous parts of the country's coast. Located near the southernmost point of the South Island, Curio Bay is one of the major attractions in the Catlins, attracting around 100,000 visitors per year. The town of Waikawa has an information center for tourists.The now petrified logs, from ancient conifers closely related to modern kauri and Norfolk pine, were buried by ancient volcanic mud flows and gradually replaced by silica to produce the fossils now exposed by the sea.The fossilised forest grew at a time of semi-tropical climate and before grasses and flowering plants had come into existence. The original forest of cycads, conifers and ferns was buried by massive floods of ash and volcanic debris either directly from a volcanic eruption or from later heavy rain on a barren volcanic mountain. Distinct bands of fossilised vegetation exposed in the cliff face indicate that in between such floods, the forest grew back at least four times over a period of some 20,000 years. Following this, the area remained buried over millions of years. Silica started to impregnate the wood and eventually turned it into stone, preserving not just tree stumps and wood, but in some places also fern fronds and leaves.Known fossil forests of this age are very few throughout the world, and this is one of the most extensive and least disturbed of them. The overall area stretches for 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Curio Bay to Slope Point.At low tide, the remaining tree stumps and logs are exposed and clearly visible. A short walkway leads from the car park at the end of the sealed road to a viewing platform over this internationally important area. It is strictly prohibited to damage or remove anything from the area.".
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- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Agathis.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Araucaria_heterophylla.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bays_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jurassic_paleontological_sites_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Southland,_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Petrified_forests.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rock_formations_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Southern_Scenic_Route.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:The_Catlins.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Southland,_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Cycad.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Hectors_dolphin.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Neville_Peat.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Petrified_wood.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Pinophyta.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Porpoise_Bay_(New_Zealand).
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Silicon_dioxide.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Slope_Point.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink South_Island.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Southern_right_whale.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Southland_District.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink The_Catlins.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Volcano.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Waikawa,_Southland.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink Yellow-eyed_penguin.
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLink File:Petrified_log_at_Curio_Bay.jpg.
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- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLinkText "Curio Bay".
- Curio_Bay wikiPageWikiLinkText "Curio".
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- Curio_Bay subject Category:Bays_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Jurassic_paleontological_sites_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Landforms_of_Southland,_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Petrified_forests.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Rock_formations_of_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Southern_Scenic_Route.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:The_Catlins.
- Curio_Bay subject Category:Visitor_attractions_in_Southland,_New_Zealand.
- Curio_Bay hypernym Embayment.
- Curio_Bay point "-46.66234444444444 169.09792222222222".
- Curio_Bay type Park.
- Curio_Bay type Place.
- Curio_Bay type Road.
- Curio_Bay type Attraction.
- Curio_Bay type Formation.
- Curio_Bay type Park.
- Curio_Bay type Road.
- Curio_Bay type Route.
- Curio_Bay type Site.
- Curio_Bay type SpatialThing.
- Curio_Bay comment "Curio Bay is a coastal embayment in the Southland District of New Zealand, best known as the site of a petrified forest some 180 million years old. It also hosts a yellow-eyed penguin colony, arguably the rarest of penguin species, with approximately 1600 breeding pairs in the extant population. The bay, along with neighbouring Porpoise Bay, is home to the endemic Hector's dolphin. Southern right whales are occasionally observed offshore, as on numerous parts of the country's coast.".
- Curio_Bay label "Curio Bay".
- Curio_Bay sameAs Q2667315.
- Curio_Bay sameAs Golfo_Kurio.
- Curio_Bay sameAs Bahía_Curio.
- Curio_Bay sameAs Baie_de_Curio.
- Curio_Bay sameAs クリオ湾.
- Curio_Bay sameAs Zatoka_Curio.
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- Curio_Bay sameAs Курио.
- Curio_Bay sameAs 6208754.
- Curio_Bay sameAs Q2667315.
- Curio_Bay lat "-46.66234444444444".
- Curio_Bay long "169.09792222222222".
- Curio_Bay wasDerivedFrom Curio_Bay?oldid=702539765.
- Curio_Bay depiction The_Catlins_MC.jpg.
- Curio_Bay isPrimaryTopicOf Curio_Bay.