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The Vero Centre (constructed as the Royal & SunAlliance Centre) is a high rise office tower located in Auckland, New Zealand. Constructed in 2000, it was Auckland's first major tower built since the 1980s. The centre contains a health club and gymnasium, main entry public foyer, retail outlets in the five podium levels and 32 office levels.
The Auckland Islands – as with all of New Zealand's subantarctic islands – is a National Nature Reserve, afforded the highest possible level of protection under New Zealand law. In addition, a marine reserve encompasses all of the Auckland Islands territorial sea and internal waterways. [2]
In 2001 or 2002 the island was bought by the Karaka Harbourside Estate. [3] In 2015, it was reported that Chinese investors purchased Kōpuahingahinga Island alongside Pararekau Island for $41.5 million with plans for turning the islands into a luxury resort and a native reserve. [3] [4] There have been local efforts to stop it from being ...
The local real-estate sector promotes myths of moving onto (and up) the property ladder [9] accordingly, and New Zealand politicians foster the idea of a stable democracy rooted in property-ownership. [10] [11] [12] In 1977, the Town and Planning Act was passed, which began to make it easier for NIMBYs to oppose new housing nearby and force ...
British mariner Abraham Bristow, who was the first European to reach the Auckland Islands, named the island Disappointment Island. [7] [8] Whilst aboard the ship Sarah in 1807, he unsuccessfully surveyed the island for fur seals and a base to reach the nearby fur seal rookeries on the western cliffs of Auckland Island.
Map of Auckland Island. The island has a land area of about 442.5 km 2 (170.9 sq mi), [1] and is 42 kilometres (26 mi) long. It was formed 25 to 10 million years ago from a huge volcanic pile which formed two domes – one centred around Carnley Harbour in the south and another (the Ross Dome) around Disappointment Island to the west.
Pacific Island and Polynesian baby names: 86 baby names from the Pacific Islands to consider for parents looking for rare, distinctive and usual names.
The large islands of New Zealand were first settled by Eastern Polynesians who adapted their culture to a non-tropical environment. Unlike western Melanesia, leaders were chosen in Polynesia based on their hereditary bloodline. Samoa, however, had another system of government that combines elements of heredity and real-world skills to choose ...