Ocean power in New Zealand speed. Because the tidal speed doubles, eight times more tidal power can be produced at spring tides than at neap tides. The entrance to Kaipara Harbour, one of the largest harbours in the world, is a channel to the Tasman Sea. It narrows to a width of , and is over deep in parts. On average, Kaipara tides rise and fall . At high tide, nearly 1000 square kilometres are flooded. Spring tidal flows reach 9 km/h (5 knots) in the entrance channel and move 1,990 million cubic metres per tidal movement or 7,960 million cubic meters daily. In 2011,
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament it assembled some of the most significant Ancient Near Eastern texts in authoritative, generously annotated English translations based on the accumulated insight of several generations of scholarship scattered". It is conventional to cite the work as ANET. ANEP refers to a companion volume "Ancient Near Eastern Pictures Relating to the Old Testament" (1st ed. 1954, 2nd ed. 1969), featuring 882 black and white designs and photos. An additional volume of supplementary texts and pictures was published in 1969 as ""The Ancient Near East: Supplementary Texts and Pictures Relating to the Old Testament"". An abridgement of ANET and ANEP was published