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Auckland's Sky Tower illuminated in Christmas colours during the month of December. Christmas traditions in New Zealand—like those in Australia—incorporate traditional Christian, British and North American Christmas traditions, including biblical and winter iconography, as well as modern and local customs.
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
The eastern shores of the creek rapidly developed into suburban housing in the 1960s, after the completion of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. This population explosion led the Waitemata County Council to announce plans for a landfill in 1969, in reclaimed land of Oruamo or Hellyers Creek.
The following is a list of cities by sunshine duration.Sunshine duration is a climatological indicator, measuring duration of sunshine in given period (usually, a day or a year) for a given location on Earth, typically expressed as an averaged value over several years.
The two largest Christmas in the Park events, held in Auckland and Christchurch since December 10, 1994, are sponsored by Coca-Cola. They draw up to 250,000 [1] and 100,000 [2] spectators, respectively. Coca-Cola refers to its Auckland Christmas in the Park production as the largest free annual event in New Zealand. [3]
In the ancient Roman calendar, December 25 was the date of the winter solstice. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Marcus Terentius Varro wrote in the first century BC that this was regarded as the middle of winter. [ 10 ] In the same century, Ovid wrote in the Fasti that the winter solstice is the first day of the "new Sun". [ 11 ]
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The Sunset Road overbridge and the Upper Harbour Highway interchange northbound offramp can be seen in the background on the far right. The Northern Busway can be seen on the near side of the motorway. The Northern Motorway skirting the edge of the Waitematā Harbour on the northern approach to the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Central Auckland can ...