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The fortifications were built from British designs adapted to New Zealand conditions. They typically included gun emplacements, pill boxes, fire control or observation posts , camouflage strategies, underground bunkers , sometimes with interconnected tunnels, containing magazines , supply and plotting rooms and protected engine rooms supplying ...
Savage Islands (also known as Nate and Hayes in the United States) is a 1983 swashbuckling adventure film set in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and filmed on location in Fiji and New Zealand, it starred Tommy Lee Jones , Michael O'Keefe and Jenny Seagrove .
Stony Batter was part of a counter-bombardment battery system progressively being installed in the Hauraki Gulf from the 1930s. Composed of various gun batteries, such as at Whangaparaoa, Motutapu Island and at Stony Batter, as well as having observation posts such at Rangitoto Island (command post) and Tiritiri Matangi Island, it was supposed to engage enemy naval forces entering the inner gulf.
Michael Joseph Savage Memorial and tomb. The first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, Michael Joseph Savage died in office in 1940, and is buried in an Art Deco mausoleum at Takaparawhau / Bastion Point designed by Tibor Donner and Anthony Bartlett with a sculpture by R. O. Gross, built above the disused Fort Britomart. It has large columns ...
Joshua Christian Nanai (born 4 November 2002), better known as Jawsh 685, is a New Zealand beat maker and music producer. [4] [5] While a student at Manurewa High School, in South Auckland, New Zealand, he made his breakthrough with the 2020 siren jam single "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" in collaboration with American R&B singer Jason Derulo.
Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant are set to lead a new period drama directed by Peter Glanz. Titled “Savage House,” the eighteenth century black comedy also stars Bel Powley (“A Small Light ...
Never released. Intended as New Zealand's first feature-length "talkie". 30 minutes of footage only remain. [3] 1934: Romantic New Zealand: travelogue: New Zealand's first released "talkie" film. [3] 1935: Down on the Farm: Stewart Pitt: New Zealand's first non-documentary "talkie". Fragments only remain. First film shot entirely in the South ...
Find the best Christmas movie quotes, including funny and heartwarming lines from famous holiday films like "Elf," "Home Alone" and all the other classics. 67 famous Christmas movie quotes that ...