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European settlers in New Zealand struggled to rework the indigenous landscape.

1958 clip of Edmund Hillary discussing the geological surveys undertaken by the Ross Sea Party.

Portrait photograph of Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand's greatest scientist.

Rutherford's discoveries about the nature of atoms shaped modern science and paved the way for nuclear physics. Einstein referred to him as the 'second Newton' who ‘tunneled into the very material of God’.

Ernest Rutherford features in The A to Z of New Zealand stamp series produced by New Zealand Post in 2008.