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Queens Wharf is a concrete wharf in Auckland, New Zealand, that continues off Queen Street (the main street in central Auckland). It opened in 1913, replacing the Queen Street Wharf, a succession of wooden wharves first built in 1852. Queens Wharf was owned and used by Ports of Auckland until 2010.
Raʻiātea or Raiatea (Tahitian: Raʻiātea) is the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean.The island is widely regarded as the "centre" of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia [3] and it is likely that the organised migrations to the Hawaiian Islands, and other parts of East Polynesia started at Raʻiātea.
The tropical forests of French Polynesia are home to a great variety of rare animals and plants. Above all, the islands are known for their olfactory landscape . The Tahitian tiaré ( Gardenia taitensis ), which blooms exclusively on the Society Islands, is one of the most fragrant of all flowers and is now protected.
The vessel had been funded for the Royal Navy by New Zealand as a gift. It berthed at Kings Wharf in June 1913, during HMS New Zealand's 1913 circumnavigation. [51] Later in 1913, the wharf was the location of a strike by waterside workers that was an early stage of the 1913 Great Strike.
The "Queen's Chain" is a concept in New Zealand property law. It is a strip of public land, usually 20 metres (or one chain in pre-metric measure) wide along rivers, lakes and the coast line. It was designed to prevent land upriver or along a coast being inaccessible to any prospective buyers.
New Zealand archaeologist Atholl John Anderson has argued similarly that the island of Rapa was settled around 1200 A.D. [7] At Atiahara, on the north coast of Tubuai , a near-beach settlement was excavated beginning in 1995 under the direction of American archaeologist Mark Eddowes, probably from a very early settlement phase.
Its population was 189,517 in 2017, [1] making it by far the most populous island in French Polynesia and accounting for 68.7% of its total population; the 2022 Census recorded a population of 191,779. Tahiti is the economic, cultural, and political centre of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity and an overseas country of the French Republic.
Queen's Wharf may refer to: Australia. Queen's Wharf, Brisbane, Queensland; ... New Zealand. Queens Wharf, Auckland This page was last edited on 24 ...