The E-line

The E-line in New Zealand


My global rubber band indicated that the E-line passes through the southern tip of New Zealand - but I couldn't pin it down to a specific place because, as Lionel Beer mentioned to me, the band is about a hundred miles wide! But recently I had an email from Sam Sampson of Stewart Island, a small island south of South Island. Known as the "Fluid Druid" of Stewart Island, Sam sent me some larger scale maps of the island, and map-dowsing and just looking at these seems to indicate that the line does in fact go through it, and its town of Oban. Sam had had a rather Watkinsian vision of leys meeting at Stewart Island some years ago, so was very excited to know, after visiting this site, that the E-line could pass through it.

I plotted the angle of the line at this point on the New Zealand atlas map, and was very interested to see that a line at this angle almost seems to "jump out" when one looks at the Stewart Island map of the E-line. "Main Road", very long and straight, is at just the right angle, and extending the line shows that it passes through the Anglican church - so subconscious siting is at work here also! Later I was to find that it passes through the planned site for a Roman Catholic church that was never actually built.

The line passes through a number of other interesting points, including a pond near Main Road where someone felt moved to put a model of Excalibur, and the local hilltop communications tower - we have found that many such towers in Britain are placed on leys.

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