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to make a first geological survey of the islands. His survey of old Lake Rotomahana and the Pink and White Terraces provides the only primary evidence of the Terrace locations today. Between 2016 and 2020, his survey diary was reverse engineered to provide the coordinates of the Pink, Black and White
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New Zealand: its physical geography, geology, and natural history: with special reference to the results of government expeditions in the provinces of Auckland and Nelson by Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter; Translated from the German Original published in 1863 by Edward Sauter... with additions up to
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von Ferdinand v. Hochstetter (1868). Über das Erdbeben in Peru am 13. August 1868 und die dadurch veranlassten Fluthwellen im Pacifischen Ocean, namentlich an den Küsten von Chili und von Neu-Seeland. Publ. K.K. hof und Staatsdruckerei, Wein. 48 p., leaves of plates : folded map ; 25
251:. In 1861 von Hochstetter married Georgiana Bengough, daughter of John Egbert Bengough, an Englishman who was director of the Vienna city gasworks. They went on to have eight children. A good deal is known of his personal life through his documented correspondence with friend and colleague 76:, then in the kingdom of Württemberg, to Christian Ferdinand and his second wife, Sophie Orth. His father was a parson who also published on botanical and geological subjects. Having received his early education at the evangelical seminary at 762: 162:
is well known for its contribution to understanding of tsunami propagation. The resulting tsunami caused damaging surges in a number of regions in the Pacific region, including fatalities on the
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Nolden, S. 2013: The Letters of Ferdinand von Hochstetter to Julius von Haast, 1859–1887. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 133K, 233 pages.
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Bunn, Rex; Nolden, Sascha (2017-06-07). "Forensic cartography with Hochstetter's 1859 Pink and White Terraces survey: Te Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata".
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convinced von Hochstetter to stay in New Zealand, where he spent the next nine months of his life. In 1859, Ferdinand was employed by the
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and Karlsbad mountains. His excellent reports established his reputation. Thus he came to be chosen as geologist to the
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Nineteenth-century observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and trans-Tasman correlations,
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The unwelcome South American visitor: 150 years on from one of New Zealand's largest recorded tsunamis
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The Novara arrived in New Zealand on 22 December 1858. Almost immediately he met the German scientist
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The geology of New Zealand: in explanation of the geographical and topographical atlas of New Zealand
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Michaelorgan.org.au: Ferdinand von Hochstetter and the Austrian Novara Scientific Expedition 1858-9
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Detailed descriptions in his diaries were helpful in 2011, when researchers managed to locate the
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who had also recently arrived in New Zealand, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Polymath
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Bunn, A. R. (2019) "Hochstetter’s Survey of the Pink and White Terraces: The Final Iteration
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became permanently fixed, and he obtained his doctor's degree and a travelling scholarship.
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Von Hochstetter's representation of a tsunami propagation after the 1868 Arica earthquake.
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h30/hochstetter-christian-gottlieb-ferdinand-von
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Bunn, A. R., Davies, N. and Stewart, D. (2018) "Dr Hochstetter’s Lost Survey
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and in 1884, was granted a hereditary knighthood by the Emperor of Austria.
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Geological Society, London, Special Publications 2007, v. 287, p. 375-387
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He then travelled to Vienna where in 1853, he joined the staff of the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Discovery of silica terraces that was damaged by volcanic eruption
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Teara.govt.nz: Te Ara article "Ferdinand von Hochstetter" (1966)
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Terraces. On his return he was appointed in 1860 professor of
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Karlsbad, seine geognostischen Verhältnisse und seine Quellen
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Biography: Christian von Hochstetter, Te Ara Encyclopedia.
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holds an annual lecture named in von Hochstetter's honour.
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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near Vienna, at age 55 from complications of diabetes.
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was named by Ferdinand von Hochstetter in 1859, after
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Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter
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Auckland volcanic field
Ferdinand Hochstetter
German
Austrian
geologist
Esslingen
Maulbronn
University of Tübingen
Tübinger Stift
Friedrich August von Quenstedt
geology
Imperial Geological Survey of Austria
Bohemia
Bohemian Forest
Fichtel Hills
Novara expedition

Julius von Haast
Arthur Purchas
government of New Zealand
mineralogy
Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute
Vienna
1868 Arica (Peru) earthquake
Chatham Islands
natural history
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
Imperial Natural History Museum

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