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unusual facts about Auckland, New Zealand



2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II

Group A of the Division II tournament was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from April 7 to 13.

Acanthochitona thileniusi

The only specimens have been found in Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand.

Addington, New Zealand

The New Zealand Railways Department's Addington Workshops were situated here until their closure in the 1980s; the historic concrete water-tower survives, next to the new Christchurch railway station.

Ali Campbell

In 2012, Campbell was announced as one of the three judges on the judging panel of the TV show, New Zealand's Got Talent.

American Airlines

In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji.

Ardmore, New Zealand

The suburb is in the Franklin ward, one of the thirteen administrative divisions of Auckland City, and is under local governance of the Auckland Council.

Arthur Worthington

John Dunmore: Wild Cards: Eccentric Characters from New Zealand's Past: Auckland: New Holland: 2006: ISBN 1-86966-132-X

Brew Masters

Sam travels to New Zealand and collaborates with Epic Brewing Company to brew a special indigenous tamarillo and pōhutukawa brew for Beervana, an annual craft beer competition.

Canvastown

Canvastown is a locality at the point where the Wakamarina River joins the Pelorus River, in Marlborough, New Zealand.

Charles William Andrews

He noticed the connections among widely separated flightless rails of Mauritius, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand and deduced that their flightless character had been independently evolved on the spot.

Craig Nevill-Manning

Craig Nevill-Manning is a New Zealand computer scientist who founded Google's first remote engineering center, located in midtown Manhattan, where he is an Engineering Director.

Cyprian Bridge Island

The island is named after Major Cyprian Bridge (1807-1885) who was a British army officer, particularly famed for his activities in the Flagstaff War, which was fought against the Māori in New Zealand in 1845.

Double-decker tram

Double-deck trams were once popular in some European cities, like Berlin and London, throughout the British Empire countries in the early half of the 20th century including Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington in New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania in Australia and in parts of Asia.

Echo Point

TV3 in New Zealand picked up the series for just a few weeks in 1996 but then later cancelled, the show featured former Shortland Street actor Martin Henderson.

Gisborne region

Gisborne is named for an early Colonial Secretary William Gisborne.

High Dependency Unit

High Dependency Unit is a psychedelic rock band originating from Dunedin, New Zealand.

Homing pigeon

Possibly the first regular air mail service in the world was Mr. Howie's Pigeon-Post service from the Auckland New Zealand suburb of Newton to Great Barrier Island, starting in 1896.

Hoyts

Their only well known release was the film version of New Zealand comic strip Footrot Flats, entitled Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale.

Imakane, Hokkaido

Imakane Junior High School has an exchange program with Burnside High School, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Jaffas

In Dunedin, New Zealand every year a vast quantity of Jaffas are raced down Baldwin Street—the World's Steepest Street, as part of the Cadbury Chocolate carnival, which is held in conjunction with the New Zealand International Science Festival.

James Hume Cook

Hume Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Jonathan Winter

Jonathan Winter (born August 18, 1971 in Masterton) is a member of the Ngai Tahu Maori tribe and a former backstroke swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for his native country.

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

Keith Millar

He took nine of those wickets during a 1925 tour of New Zealand by the Victorians and included the scalp of Test cricketer Stewie Dempster.

Large kelpfish

The large kelpfish, Chironemus marmoratus, is a kelpfish of the genus Chironemus, found in southern Australia, and between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in depths down to 30 m.

Limited express

The Night Limited was the premier express train on the North Island Main Trunk Railway between Auckland and Wellington from 1924 until 1971; during peak seasons, it was augmented by the Daylight Limited.

Mayor of Manukau

The Mayor of Manukau was the head of the municipal government of Manukau City, New Zealand, from 1965 to 2010, and presided over the Manukau City Council.

Mitch Evans

Evans attended Saint Kentigern College in Pakuranga, Auckland, but left at the end of 2010 to pursue his career overseas.

Murupara Branch

The Murupara Branch (incorporating the Kawerau Branch) was a branch railway line from the East Coast Main Trunk at Hawkens Junction near Edgecombe via Kawerau to Murupara; built to serve a new pulp and paper mill havesting the radiata pine trees of the Kaingaroa Forest on the Kaingaroa Plateau in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.

My Own Private Amsterdam

"Frankfurt" is the first single released from the album, and has had airplay on New Zealand radio station The Rock

New Zealand hip hop

Early Hiphop releases in New Zealand include the collection Ak89 - In Love With These Rhymes, compiled by Simon Laan and released by Auckland radio bFm in 1989 (on cassette only), and a variety of releases by Southside Records, owned by Murray Cammick.

New Zealand State Highway 77

State Highway 77 is a State Highway in New Zealand going through the inland parts of Central and Mid Canterbury between the towns of Ashburton and Darfield via the Rakaia Gorge.

Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup

New Zealand, Australia, Fiji got to group 1 and respectively ranked 1, 2, 5 places.

Onehunga

The Onehunga branch will be the first in Auckland to see passenger service on the new AM class electric trains.

Philip Nitschke

He was detained for an hour for questioning on arrival at Auckland Airport in New Zealand on a trip to hold public meetings and launch the kit.

Philippe Viard

Michael King, God's farthest outpost: a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland, 1997.

Polymastia lorum

It is only known from a single specimen found attached to a dead Glycimeris valve on a reef near Ohinau Island, one of the Mercury Islands off North Island, New Zealand.

Power Rangers RPM

Australian actor Eka Darville, who previously starred in series three of Blue Water High, was reported to have a role in September 2008 in what was then unknown as RPM or Racing Performance Machines which began production in September 2008 in New Zealand.

Pukeiti

Pukeiti, Auckland, one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

Rimutaka Tunnel

The Rimutaka Tunnel (officially Tunnel 2, Wairarapa Line) is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Rimutaka Ranges, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and Featherston, on the Wairarapa Line.

Rory Fallon

After originally representing England at youth level, he has been capped by New Zealand at international level and scored the goal that took them to the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

RPM Challenge

In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.

Shotgate

The Hurricane fighter recalls the incident on 31 May 1940, when RAF Pilot Officer William Henry Hodgson, a New Zealander, engaged hostile bombers and fighters over the River Thames in his Hawker Hurricane, but it was hit and caught fire.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

Spacifix

July/August 2007: Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics Tour, they will be the support act for the two dates in Auckland.

Sunnyvale, Auckland

Local State primary and secondary schools include Sunnyvale Primary School, Holy Cross, Massey High School, Henderson High School, Liston College, and St Dominic's College.

Tama Canning

Tamahau Karangatukituki Canning (born 7 April 1977 in Rose Park) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played four One Day Internationals but no Tests.

Tuku Nature Reserve

The Tuku Nature Reserve lies in the Tuku-a-tamatea (Tuku) River Valley in the south-west of the island of Rekohu, the main island in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands group in the south-west Pacific Ocean.

Women's Rugby League World Cup

Women's Rugby League had been played in both Oceania and the United Kingdom for several years but it was not until 1985 in Britain and 1993 in Australia and New Zealand where female only organizations and governing bodies were established and while the Rugby Football League recognized the British women in 1985 it took another five years for the Australian Rugby League to officially recognize the Australian Women's rugby league.


see also

1st Battalion 12th Marines

They were deployed to Auckland, New Zealand during March 1943, then redeployed during July 1943 to Guadalcanal.

AAFL

Auckland Australian Football League, an Australian rules football competition in Auckland, New Zealand

Antonio Rosmini-Serbati

In 1962, Rosmini College School for Boys was founded in Auckland, New Zealand by Father Catcheside.

Arsalan Kazemi

As captain of the Iranian under-19 team, Kazemi led the Iranian national team with 16.6PPG, 12.2RPG and 3 assists to become the teams highest scorer at the FIBA Under-19 World Championship 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Daniel Faleafa

Daniel Faleafa (born 13 February 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a professional rugby union player for the Northland Rugby Union in the ITM Cup competition.

Dorothea Anne Franchi

She was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the daughter of Peter Rudolph Franchi, and studied at the University of Auckland and the Royal College of Music in London.

Eastern Motorway

Eastern Transport Corridor, a planned but since cancelled new motorway in Auckland, New Zealand

Eric Baume

Eric Baume was born Frederick Ehrenfried Baume in Auckland, New Zealand in 1900 to a father of the same name who was a lawyer and politician.

Ericsson Stadium

Mt Smart Stadium, formerly known as Ericsson Stadium, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Fast Crew

Fast Crew was formed in Auckland, New Zealand in 1999, and after some experimentation, the group began playing live around Auckland.

Francis Fainifo

He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but has played international rugby with Australia A.

Gavin Downie

Gavin Price Ansell Downie (5 December 1924 – 27 January 1998) was a Member of Parliament for Pakuranga in Auckland, New Zealand.

Goodwood Heights

Goodwood Heights is a suburb of Manukau City in Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of the Manukau City Council.

Guardian Angels

In January 2006, the Guardian Angels opened its New Zealand Headquarters in Henderson, a suburb of Waitakere City west of Auckland, New Zealand's fifth-largest and largest cities respectively (to be amalgamated with others into a "super-city" in 2010).

Half Moon Bay, Auckland

Half Moon Bay is a coastal suburb located immediately south of Bucklands Beach in Manukau City, Auckland, New Zealand.

Harry Reginald Jenkins

Harry Reginald Jenkins (1881–1970) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Parnell in Auckland, New Zealand, representing the United Party.

Hellriegel

Jan Hellriegel is a singer/songwriter based in Auckland, New Zealand

Hobsonville Point Secondary School

Hobsonville Point Secondary School is a under-construction state coeducational secondary school located in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Hobsonville.

Howard Charles Clark

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Clark was educated at Takapuna Grammar School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951, a Master of Science degree in 1952, and a PhD in 1954 from the University of Auckland.

James Goodman

James R. Goodman (born 1944), professor of computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand

James Holland

James Job Holland (1841–1922), Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand

Little Manly

Little Manly, New Zealand is a suburb on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula north of Auckland, New Zealand

Manurewa East

Manurewa East is a suburb of Manukau City in Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of Manukau City Council.

Marcellin

Marcellin College, Auckland, an integrated, co-educational college in Royal Oak, Auckland, New Zealand

Northern Busway

Northern Busway, Auckland, a busway in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand

One Man, Two Guvnors

Debuting at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong as part of the annual Hong Kong Arts Festival, the tour will subsequently visit Her Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide, Australia, The Aotea Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, The Sydney Theatre in Sydney, Australia, before culminating at the Playhouse in Melbourne, Australia.

Onshore service

For example, if an American resident were to travel to New Zealand, and play golf with his friends in Auckland; this would be classified as an Onshore service as the Auckland (New Zealand) golf club is providing the American tourist with a service.

Pasifika

The Pasifika Festival, an annual festival held in Auckland, New Zealand

Raymond Firth

Firth was born in Tamaki, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand in 1901, to Wesley and Marie Firth.

Rutherford College

Rutherford College, Auckland, a secondary school in Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland, New Zealand

Rutherford High School

Rutherford High School (Auckland), former name of Rutherford College, Auckland, New Zealand

Scented Gardens for the Blind

Dragon formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in January 1972 with a line-up that featured Todd Hunter on bass guitar, guitarist Ray Goodwin, drummer Neil Reynolds and singer/pianist Graeme Collins.

Society for Social Neuroscience

The Society for Social Neuroscience was founded on January 20, 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand, after a series of consultations led by John Cacioppo and Jean Decety with social neurobiologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and neurologists from all over the world.

Southern Line

The Southern Line, Auckland, a suburban railway line in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Cloud

The Cloud, Auckland is a multi-purpose venue built for the Rugby World Cup 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand

The Flea

The Flea 88.2, a radio station based in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand

The Gardens, Auckland

Goodwood Heights is a suburb of Manukau City in Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of Manukau City Council.

Tom Paris

Tried and convicted of treason for aiding the Maquis Rebellion, Paris was sentenced to serve time in the Federation Penal Settlement near Auckland, New Zealand.

Totara Heights

Totara Heights is a suburb of Manukau City in Auckland, New Zealand, under the local governance of the Manukau City Council.

William Lane

He died on 26 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, having been editor of the Herald from 1913 to 1917, much admired, having lost one son Charles at a cricket match in Cosme in Paraguay, and another Donald on the first day of the ANZAC landings (25 April 1915) on the beaches of Gallipoli.

Xue family murder and abandonment

The Xue family murder and abandonment case involves the abandonment of a three-year-old girl, Qian Xun Xue (薛千寻 in Simplified Chinese) also known as Clare Xue, at Southern Cross Station in Melbourne, Australia, the murder of her mother, Anan (Annie) Liu (劉安安), in Auckland, New Zealand, and the search for and subsequent capture of her father, Nai Yin (Michael) Xue (薛乃印), in the United States of America.

Zeddie

The first boat was designed and built by Mr R.B. Brown at Northcote (Auckland, New Zealand) in the 1920s.