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| 1 | Whangarei ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -35.7256 / 174.3233 | Whangarei (or ;) is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. It is part of the Whangarei District, a local body created in 1989 from the former Whangarei City, Whangarei County and Hikurangi Town councils, to administer both the city proper and its (...) | |
| 2 | Auckland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : -36.8406 / 174.74 | Auckland is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. Auckland is the largest urban area in the country, with an urban population of around It is located in the Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, resulting (...) | |
| 3 | Lower Hutt ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : -41.2129 / 174.8996 | Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. It is New Zealand's seventh most populous city, with a population of (...) | |
| 4 | Port Chalmers ![]() FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : -45.8328 / 170.6214 | Port Chalmers is a suburb and the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, with a population of 3,000. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast from Dunedin's city centre. (...) | |
| 5 | Wellington ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : -41.2889 / 174.7772 | Wellington is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative (...) | |
| 6 | Christchurch ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : -43.53 / 172.6203 | Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. The Christchurch urban area lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula. It is home to residents, making it New Zealand's third-most populous city behind Auckland and (...) | |
| 7 | Hamilton, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : -37.7833 / 175.2833 | Hamilton is a city in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato region, with a territorial population of , the country's fourth most-populous city. Encompassing a land area of about on the banks of the Waikato River, Hamilton is part of the wider Hamilton (...) | |
| 8 | Nelson, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : -41.2708 / 173.2842 | Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay. Nelson is the oldest city in the South Island and the second-oldest settled city in New Zealand – it was established in 1841 and was proclaimed a city by royal charter in 1858 (...) | |
| 9 | South Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 766 Lat/Lng : -43.9825 / 170.4489 | The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean (...) | |
| 10 | Wellington International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : -41.3272 / 174.8053 | Wellington International Airport (formerly known as Rongotai Airport) is an international airport located in the suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It lies 3 NM or 5.5 km south-east from the city centre. It is a hub for Air New Zealand and its subsidiaries (...) | |
| 11 | Mount Taranaki ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2480 Lat/Lng : -39.2965 / 174.064 | Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active'Likely to erupt in the future', Neal & Alloway 1991, as quoted in but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island (...) | |
| 12 | Upper Hutt ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : -41.1325 / 175.0509 | Upper Hutt (Māori: Orongomai) is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area. (...) | |
| 13 | North Shore, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : -36.7855 / 174.7563 | The North Shore is part of the urban area of Auckland, New Zealand, located to the north of the Waitematā Harbour. (...) | |
| 14 | Waikato ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : -37.5 / 175.3333 | Waikato (or) is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato District, Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupo District, and parts of Rotorua District. It is governed by the Waikato Regional Council (...) | |
| 15 | Wellington railway station ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -41.2786 / 174.7808 | Wellington railway station is the main railway station serving Wellington, New Zealand, and is the southern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk, Wairarapa Line and Johnsonville Line. The station opened in June 1937 replacing the two previous Wellington termini, Lambton and Thorndon. (...) | |
| 16 | 2011 Christchurch earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 225 Lat/Lng : -43.5834 / 172.7012 | A earthquake occurred in Christchurch on at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC). The earthquake struck the Canterbury Region in New Zealand's South Island , USGS and was centred west of the port town of Lyttelton, and south-east of the centre of Christchurch, at the time New Zealand's second-most (...) | |
| 17 | Raglan, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : -37.8014 / 174.8722 | Raglan is a small beachside town located 48 km west of Hamilton, New Zealand on State Highway 23. It is known for its surfing, and volcanic black sand beaches. (...) | |
| 18 | 7 July 2005 London bombings ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 51.5168 / -0.0806 | The 7 July 2005 London bombings, often referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks in London, United Kingdom, which targeted commuters travelling on the city's public transport system during the morning rush hour (...) | |
| 19 | Parnell, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : -36.8586 / 174.7822 | Parnell is an upmarket suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is one of New Zealand's most affluent suburbs, consistently ranked within the top three wealthiest, and is often billed as Auckland's "oldest suburb" since it dates from the earliest days of the European settlement of Auckland in 1841 (...) | |
| 20 | Auckland Northern Motorway ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : -36.847 / 174.7531 | The Auckland Northern Motorway (known locally as the Northern Motorway, and historically as the Auckland–Waiwera Motorway) in the Auckland Region of New Zealand links central Auckland City and Puhoi in the former Rodney District via the Hibiscus Coast and North Shore. It is part of State Highway 1 (...) | |
| 21 | Taradale, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : -39.5333 / 176.85 | Taradale is a suburb of the City of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a predominantly middle-upper class residential suburb, located 10 kilometres southwest of the centre of Napier (...) | |
| 22 | Caversham, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : -45.9 / 170.4833 | Caversham is one of the older suburbs of the city of Dunedin, in New Zealand's South Island. It is sited at the western edge of the city's central plain at the mouth of the steep Caversham Valley, which rises to the saddle of Lookout Point (...) | |
| 23 | Ponsonby, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : -36.8524 / 174.7387 | Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running north-south, which is followed by the main street of the suburb, Ponsonby Road (...) | |
| 24 | Karioi ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 405 Lat/Lng : -37.8667 / 174.8167 | Karioi or Mount Karioi is a 2.4 million year old extinct volcano 8 km SW of Raglan in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It was the earliest of the line of 6 calcalkalic volcanoes, the largest of which is Mount Pirongia (the others are at Kakepuku, Te Kawa, Tokanui, Waikeria and (...) | |
| 25 | Freemans Bay ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : -36.8516 / 174.751 | Freemans Bay is the name of a former bay and now inner city suburb of Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. The bay has been filled in to a considerable extent, with the reclamation area now totally concealing the ancient shoreline (...) | |
| 26 | History of radar ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 98 Lat/Lng : 52.196 / -1.0501 | The history of radar (where radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging) started with experiments by Heinrich Hertz in the late 19th century that showed that radio waves were reflected by metallic objects. This possibility was suggested in James Clerk Maxwell's seminal work on electromagnetism (...) | |
| 27 | Motu Matakohe ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : -35.7847 / 174.3583 | Motu Matakohe, also known as Matakohe or Limestone Island, is a 37 ha (100 acre) island in the upper reaches of Whangarei Harbour, just off Onerahi, a seaside suburb of the city of Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand (...) | |
| 28 | Calton Hill, New Zealand ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : -45.9 / 170.4708 | Calton Hill is an elevated southern residential suburb of the City of Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island. The suburb is named after Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some of its street names carry similar etymological roots (...) | |
| 29 | Browns Island (New Zealand) ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : -36.8306 / 174.8948 | Browns Island or Motukorea is a small New Zealand island, in the Hauraki Gulf north of Musick Point, one of the best preserved volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field. The age of eruption is currently unknown. Due to centuries of cultivation, little native bush remains except on the north-eastern (...) | |