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Berthing map of Wellington Harbour (1970) Map showing wharves, reclamation in progress and numbered wharf sheds around the inner harbour. City Wharves (1978) Map showing inner harbour wharves; Wellington's maritime heritage trail A Wellington City Council website detailing heritage sites to visit on a walk along the wharves and waterfront.
The first wharves were built from 1840 by newly-arrived European settlers, to enable them to move goods from ship to shore. The first publicly-owned wharf built in Wellington Harbour was Queens Wharf, completed in 1862. In 1880 the Wellington Harbour Board was created and took control of most wharves in the harbour until its disestablishment in ...
The cartography of New Zealand is the history of surveying and creation of maps of New Zealand. Surveying in New Zealand began with the arrival of Abel Tasman in the mid 17th century. [ 1 ] Cartography and surveying have developed in incremental steps since that time till the integration of New Zealand into a global system based on GPS and the ...
The final phase of reclamation took place in the 1960s and 1970s. A government report in 1967 recommended the adoption of containerisation and that Wellington should be one of the two New Zealand container ports. [14] With containerisation came new roll-on/roll-off cargo handling methods that require more land adjacent to ships' berths. This ...
The statue was transported to New Zealand aboard the SS Turakina of the New Zealand Shipping Company, reaching Wellington on 10 April 1905. It was installed at Post Office Square, near Queens Wharf in central Wellington. [11] The statue was officially unveiled by Lord Plunket on 29 April 1905, alongside Premier Seddon and Wellington Mayor John ...
New Zealand's first permanent racecourse was created in 1847 in Miramar: The Wellington Independent published the announcement of the new race course on 2 October 1847 as: "The undersigned, having made arrangement with the proprietor of the land situated between Burnham Water, and Lyall's Bay, for the formation of a Race Course". [61]
The Polynesian Triangle is a geographical region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii (Hawaiʻi) (1), New Zealand (Aotearoa) (2) and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) (3) at its corners, but excluding Fiji on its western side. At the center is Tahiti (5), with Samoa (4) to the west.
CentrePort Wellington (CentrePort) provides land and sea infrastructure and manages port facilities in Wellington Harbour in New Zealand. The company is the successor to the Wellington Harbour Board, and was formed as one of the outcomes of the 1989 local government reforms. This article is about both the company and the port.