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Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest movie-TV event in Scandinavia, looks set to stage one of the most dramatic experiments in on-site fest screenings in a COVID-19 age, isolating a ...
Eastbourne (Māori: Ōkiwi) [4] is a suburb of Lower Hutt, a part of Wellington, New Zealand.Lying beside the sea, it is a popular local tourist destination via car from Petone or from ferry crossings from central Wellington.
The lighthouse and three keepers' dwellings have been restored, and are open to the public seven days a week. The lighthouse tower is open for climbing. The original 1867 Barbier et Fenestre first order fixed lens (installed 1887), and 1860 "Henry Lepaute" rotating first order Fresnel lens used at Cape Canaveral Light Station are all on display ...
Matiu / Somes Island is the largest of three islands in the northern half of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand.The island is 24.9 hectares (62 acres) in area, and lies 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the suburb of Petone and the mouth of the Hutt River.
Known as the Price’s Creek Lighthouse, the 20-foot-tall brick tower has been witness to war, river traffic, and many hurricanes. ... the 20-foot-tall brick tower that still stands today, and ...
[14] [15] Today a Māori cemetery, Owhiti Urupā, remains on the site of the former Waiwhetū Pā. [16] Seaview remained undeveloped until 1929, when Lower Hutt Borough Council reclaimed land and constructed Seaview Road to provide a more direct route to the eastern bays and access to a new heavy industrial zone to be developed in the area.
Alicetown began as a farming settlement and was settled from the early 1900s by Petone factory workers. [4] Alicetown was named for Alice Maud Fitzherbert, the daughter of mayor William Fitzherbert who married Professor George William von Zedlitz in 1905. [5] Te Tatau o Te Pō Marae was established in Alicetown in 1933.
Over a 45-years span — between 1975 and 2020 — improvements in cancer screenings and prevention strategies have reduced deaths from five common cancers more than any advances in treatments ...