Talk:The Catlins

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This article was vandalised by Caitlinh the day it featured. Caitlinh's only other "contributions" have been a couple of pieces of deliberate vandalism on the Kiwi page.—Copey 2 13:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Dollar equivalent for £30 in 1840 2 Frogs at Lake Wilkie - what kind? 3 Distance from Purakaunui Falls to Owaka 4 Well done 5 Size of article

[edit] Dollar equivalent for £30 in 1840

Just a note on the $3000 figure. I got this by chaining together the NZ CPI Inflation Calculator (which goes back to 1862) and this UK relative value calculator (going from 1840 to 1862), which gave a range of figures from $2800 to $4350 depending on which index was used for the UK calculation. The lowest figure seemed to be based on the most comparable index to the CPI, and I rounded this to $3000. -- Avenue 05:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frogs at Lake Wilkie - what kind?

Can anyone identify the tiny frogs that live around Lake Wilkie? The photo on the right is poorly focused; see the photo here (on the bottom right) for a sharper one. I doubt that they're the world's smallest, as the caption there says, but they are quite small - maybe 15-20 mm (<1 in) in body length. -- Avenue 13:50, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Distance from Purakaunui Falls to Owaka

The caption for the Purakaunui Falls photo states that it lies 17 km (27 mi) from Owaka, this is clearly a mistake. 17 miles is roughly 27 km, however the Purakaunui Falls article gives the distance as 17 km (11 mi).DJIndica 01:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Well spotted. I have fixed the conversion. -- Avenue 01:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Well done

Congrads. Good to see a kiwi article on the front page. --Midnighttonight 03:26, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks--64.80.222.100 08:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size of article

This excellent article is already reaching an unwieldy size. I would suggest that some of the longer sections could become separate articles with tightly written summaries in their place in this article. Comments? Sunray 15:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree it's getting a bit too long for its current structure, and it would be worth trying a few section summaries with links to separate articles. Geography, History and Natural history are probably the ones to start with, although I think this should wait until the article's off the main page and we no longer have to deal with all the vandalism. -- Avenue 16:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)