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

C-43(a)(c)(b)(d)Fig. C9. Trees felled and scorched by the Tapanui explosion. At the turn of the last century,the vast area around the Tapanui Crater was literally covered with such uprooted trees, thetrunks of which were pointing to the same spot, i.e. the centre of the Crater. Theappearance of these fallen trees, recalled by some elderly people, was resembling that ofthe Tunguska explosion. Early settlers in this area removed these trees, tidying up the landfor livestock. The older locals still remember the amount of work this involved, as thesurfaces of the trees were impregnated with grains of sand which blunted steel saws. Atpresent only those trees buried underground or hidden in swamps remain.(a) A trunk of a "totara" tree over eight hundred years old, saved only about 200metres from the south edge of the Tapanui Crater. The crater is also visible in thisphotograph at the extension of the trunk's axis.(b) Fallen and burnt trees at the mouth of the Mataura river, about 50 kilometreswest from the Tapanui Crater. They partially stick out from the river bank, whereas theirtrunks point in the direction of the Crater.(c) The author (Dr Jan Pajak) photographed by a huge decomposed tree trunk thatstuck out from the banks of the Black Gully Creek, while its axis was pointing at the TapanuiCrater.(d) Tree trunks partially sticking out from the banks of the Black Gully Creek, locatedbetween the towns of Tapanui and Heriot, about 20 kilometres north of the Tapanui Crater.A layer of the ground that contains these trees also contains charcoal and scorched stones.The orientation of the trees contradicts the direction of water flow and the slope of a localhill, but coincides with the direction of the Tapanui Crater.