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Wellington International Airport [4] (IATA: WLG, ICAO: NZWN) — formerly known as Rongotai Aerodrome or Rongotai Airport, or simply Wellington Airport — is an international airport located in the suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. It lies 5.5 km (3.0 nmi; 3.4 mi) south-east from the city centre.
Wellington: NZWN WLG Wellington Airport 12 m (41 ft) 1,815 m (5,955 ft) West Melton ...
The hill was flattened during construction of Wellington Airport from the 1930s to the 1950s, with spoil used for reclamation in Lyall Bay and for other road works. [6] [7] [8] Some houses at the northern end of Moa Point were relocated or removed and the promontory that existed there is now under the airport.
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Originally Wellington Airport announced it would install a sign saying 'Wellywood', referencing the area's film industry, but this proposal was not popular so a competition was created by the airport and promoted by the Dominion Post newspaper. The winner of the design competition was 'Wellington Blown Away', designed by Matt Sellars and ...
Lyall Bay was earlier known as False Bay, because ships would mistake the bay for the entrance to Wellington Harbour. [8] A Māori name for the beach was Hue te para, which literally means 'gourd' (hue), 'the' (te), and 'ripe' (para) [1] Writing in 1919, Elsdon Best stated that Hue te para appeared on a map drawn by Crawford but that none of the Māori he had spoken to knew of that name.
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Infratil was one of the world's first listed infrastructure funds when it was established and listed on the New Zealand Exchange in 1994. Its first investment was a minority stake in Trustpower. It expanded into airport ownership in 1998 when it bought a 66% shareholding in Wellington Airport. More recently Infratil has invested into the ...