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Mount Iron Aerodrome was an aerodrome in Wānaka, New Zealand. The original 'Pembroke' town airport was established in the 1940s at the base of Mt Iron, a large prominent rocky hill at the entrance to Wānaka just beneath the site of Puzzling World Amusement Centre. [1] It had an 800 m compacted grass runway with day markers. [2]
The Fast-track Approvals Bill project list is a list of the 149 projects seeking approval through the Fast-track Approvals Bill in New Zealand. [1] [2] [3]The list of projects to be included in the Bill was released publicly on 6 October 2024. [3]
Wānaka has a sunny climate and serves as an access point to the highest New Zealand mountain outside of the Aoraki / Mount Cook region: Mount Aspiring / Tititea. Mount Aspiring National Park is popular for mountaineering and hiking. Tourists enjoy day trips into the park and many tourists go hiking in the park for up to a week at a time.
Aoraki / Mount Cook, located in New Zealand's South Island, is the highest point in the country. The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand [a] ordered by height. . Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand
During World War II, the ironworks were reconditioned in case New Zealand was cut off from iron imports, and this included reinstatement of the wharf. The ironworks were never fired up again, though. [1] [13] Since its reinstatement, the wharf had been used for the export of dolomite, a fertiliser locally mined at Mount Burnett. In a storm on ...
Mount Turner is located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of the community of Makarora and is set in Mount Aspiring National Park on South Island. It is part of the West Wanaka Mountains which are part of the Southern Alps. [2] Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains to the Wilkin River and the Makarora River.
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Gunn is located in a marine west coast climate zone. [6] Prevailing westerly winds blow moist air from the Tasman Sea onto the mountain, where the air is forced upward by the mountains (orographic lift), causing moisture to drop in the form of rain and snow. This climate supports small unnamed ...
The mountain's toponym was applied by Dr. Robert von Lendenfeld to honour William Spotswood Green (1847–1919), who made the first recorded attempt to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook with two companions in 1882, but less than 100 metres from the summit they were forced to turn back. [3] There is also a Mount Green in Canada with the same namesake.