Prof. Dr Jan Pajak THE NEW ZEALAND EXPLOSION OF ... - Totalizm

C-26banks of the Black Gully Creek, about 20 kilometres north from the Tapanui Crater, almostin the middle between townships of Tapanui i Heriot; (2) near the outlet from Mataura river,about 50 kilometres south from the Tapanui Crater; (3) near the top of Mt. Cargill, Dunedin,about 100 kilometres east from the Tapanui Crater; (4) on the top of a small hill range inMesopotamia, about 270 kilometres north-east from the Tapanui Crater.C7. The mass extinction of Moa birds around 1178Literature on craters postulates that cataclysmic explosions, such as huge meteorimpacts, are responsible for mass extinction of some larger species in the geologic record(e.g. see the paper by Richard A.F. Grieve, "Terrestrial impact structures", Ann. Rev. EarthPlanet. Sci., 1987.15, page 264). In recent New Zealand history a huge bird called the"Moa" is known, which was flourishing in large numbers in the South Island of New Zealandbefore the Tapanui explosion. Some species of this bird reached a height of 4 metres.Thus, along with giraffes, the Moa was one of the tallest animals living on Earth in historictimes. It was so powerful that, according to Maori legends, it was able to kill a warrior withjust one kick. Its habits were similar to those of the ostriches from Africa, i.e. it could onlyrun but it could not fly or swim. Unfortunately, the Moa bird did not survive fires from theTapanui explosion, the colder climate this explosion brought, and the years of Maori hungerto follow. Numerous remains of this bird show signs of death in a conflagration.The present official explanation for the Moa disappearance is that it was hunted byMaoris to the point of extinction. However, this explanation does not fit to the existingevidence, especially: (1) the insignificantly small population of Maori in the South Island ofNew Zealand which could not suffice to hunt out such large numbers of Moa in a short time,and (2) the mass graves of Moa birds which contain remains of literally hundreds of charredbirds which died at the same instant. Thus a much more rational explanation for such amass extinction of this bird is a large scale explosion near Tapanui that ignited cataclysmicbush fires.One of the curiosities of Moa bird remains is that these are mostly scattered alongthe banks of water reservoirs (rivers, lakes, swamps) which are located on the side nearestto the Tapanui Crater (e.g. the right bank of Clutha river). It looks as if, just before the birdsdied, they tried to escape from something horrifying which approached them from thedirection of the Tapanui Crater, but the water created an obstacle to the birds' escape.The Moa bird is the most recent case of mass extinction. Thus the investigations ofits cause have enormous scientific significance. When this cause is conclusivelydetermined, the Moa analogy could be extended for examining and explaining other massextinctions, such as Mammoths, Dinosaurs, etc. It seems to be pity that so-far New Zealandscientists have given so little attention to the Tapanui explosion and its possible implicationsfor the Moa bird extinction.C8. The magnetization of the soil and rocks near the Tapanui CraterThe entire area of the Tapanui Crater is magnetized in a turbulent, disorganizedmanner, similar to that expected to occur during a powerful magnetic explosion. Thismagnetization manifests itself in following ways:1. It can be detected by a sensitive compass, which, when carried in the hand, spinsits needle in varying directions. Also it is possible to find such locations near the TapanuiCrater where a sensitive compass indicates the position of magnetic poles to be located intotally wrong directions, sometimes even opposite to the real ones. Furthermore, there arenumerous stories in circulation about local pilots who flew older types of aeroplanesequipped with ordinary compasses. These pilots used to complain that compasses in their