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Tapu Te Ranga Marae is located in Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. The marae was founded in 1974 by Māori playwright Bruce Stewart , who lived there until his death in 2017. The ten storey high structure was built largely by hand from recycled materials over a 30 year period, as a tribute to Stewart's mother, Hinetai Hirini.
Before British colonisation of New Zealand, the Indigenous architecture of Māori was an 'elaborate tradition of timber architecture'. [1] Māori constructed rectangular buildings (whare) with a 'small door, an extension of the roof and walls to form a porch, and an interior with hearths along the centre and sleeping places along the walls' for protection against the cold.
Bay Point, formerly West Pittsburg and originally Bella Vista is a census-designated place located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in Contra Costa County, California. Bay Point is just west of Pittsburg, California, and northeast of Concord, California, on the southern shore of Suisun Bay. The population of Bay Point was ...
An employee of Southern Clams Ltd gathers cockles. Blueskin Bay is an estuary in coastal Otago, about 25 km north of Dunedin, New Zealand.The name also unofficially describes the rural district which includes the northern slopes of Mount Cargill, the southern slopes of the Kilmog, and the townships of Doctors Point, Waitati, Evansdale, Warrington, and Seacliff.
Point Britomart (Māori: Te Rerenga Ora Iti) was a headland in the Waitematā Harbour, in Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau), New Zealand. Located between Commercial Bay and Official Bay , [ 2 ] the point was later quarried away to produce fill for land reclamation in Mechanics Bay , and almost no physical trace remains at street level in what is ...
Bay Point may refer to: Bay Point (Antarctica) Bay Point, California; Bay Point (former settlement), California; Bay Point, Monroe County, Florida;
A book chronicling the history of Castlepoint, including Castlepoint Station, Castle Point Lighthouse and the local fishing industry was published in October 2010 by Hedleys Books of Masterton. [5] Castle Rock is a landmark in Castlepoint and is 162m high. [4] It includes a walk through woods and over bridges and is approximately 45 minutes long.
Tuamarina (often spelled Tua Marina) is a small town just north of the Wairau River and a few kilometres from the Cloudy Bay coast in Marlborough, New Zealand.The Tuamarina River flows south through the settlement and joins the Wairau River.