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39 unusual facts about Wellington


2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards

The 2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards were held on 10 November 2001 at the St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.

Angela Singer

Angela Singer (born 1966 in Essex) is an English artist and animal rights activist who now lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Ari Jayaprakash

Ari Jayaprakash (born Wellington, India 11 March 1977) is an Indian artist and photographer.

Chris Finlayson

Finlayson grew up in Wellington, where he attended St. Patrick's College.

Daisy Ogle

She is known to have had close links with Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Centre in London and along with her colleague Miss Sinclair, they worked closely with two of their staff in India: Alfred J. Flack and Raymond Golsworthy who were stationed at Wellington.

Demographics of Cleveland

As of the 2010 Census, there were 396,815 people, 167,490 households, and 89,821 families residing in the city of Cleveland (roughly a population comparable to that of Wellington and Zurich, while at the same time still on the high scale of cities such as Zurich, Helsinki, and Stuttgart).

Devily Leung

Educated in Hong Kong, in Wellington, New Zealand and in Melbourne, Australia, she joined the competition of TVB Weekly Cover Girl held by TVB and she was placed the third.

Diplomatic Protection Squad

The squad is based in the capital Wellington, where the majority of foreign diplomatic missions are.

Ernie Toshack

In Wellington, he opened the bowling in a match that was retrospectively classed as an official Test match.

Eve de Castro-Robinson

A "de Castro-Robinson Portrait" concert was held in her honor at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004.

Frederick de Jersey Clere

An advocate of concrete construction (though he wrote a pamphlet on building wooden churches), his best known design is St Mary of the Angels (Catholic, 1922) of reinforced concrete, in Wellington.

HM Passport Office

In 2007, the 90 British diplomatic missions that issued passports were consolidated into seven Regional Passport Processing Centres (RPPCs) based in Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Madrid, Paris, Pretoria, Washington, D.C. and Wellington with an additional centre in Dublin.

Holden VK Commodore

The VK was assembled by General Motors New Zealand at their Trentham assembly plant, near Wellington.

Iridoteuthis maoria

The type specimen was collected off New Zealand and is deposited at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington.

Jonathan Binns Were

Were was the third son of the late Nicholas Were, of Landcox, Somerset, and was born at Wellington, in that county.

L.A. Zombie

In New Zealand, the film was first screened at the Out Takes LGBT film festival in Auckland and Wellington.

Last Passenger

During development, Nooshin and producer Zack Winfield traveled to Wellington to meet with Weta Workshop special effects head Richard Taylor, an avid train fanatic and supporter of the script.

Lee Kit

In 2007-2008, Lee was invited to the Bolton Street Cottage Artist-in-residence programme in Wellington, New Zealand.

Martyn Sanderson

Sanderson was one of the founders of Downstage Theatre in 1964 in Wellington, with a vision of a small professional company performing challenging works in an intimate venue.

Neil Dawson

Dawson's best-known pieces include The Chalice, a large inverted cone in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, and Ferns, a sphere created from metal fern leaves which hangs above Wellington's Civic Square.

Patti Miller

Patti Miller (born 1954), an Australian writer, was born and grew up near Wellington, New South Wales, Australia.

Petrus Van der Velden

Sometime late 1903 or early 1904 he returned to Wellington, bringing with him a young Australian woman, Australia Wahlberg, whom he married at the Wellington Registry office on 4 February 1904.

Pratt's Bottom

Pratt's Bottom was declared to be the 'sister city' of Wellington, New Zealand in 2009 by then-Mayor, Kerry Prendergast.

Redwood Railway Station

Redwood Railway Station on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT).

Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.

Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

Auckland had 87.0% of the sun obscured, whereas Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin respectively had 76.4%, 68.9% and 61.5% of the sun obscured.

The Clean House

Other international productions include: The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury (2008); the Espace Libre theatre (Montreal) in French (2008); Circa Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (2009).

Upton Magna

Upton Magna is situated on the National Cycle Route 81 between Wellington and Shrewsbury.

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

It was the Wellington Colliery Railway and mines which provided Robert Dunsmuir with the wealth, experience and infrastructure he needed to convince the government, under generous terms, to allow him to build an Island Railway.

This station was named after the town of Wellington which formed around and next to the Wellington Colliery which was named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a leading British military and political figure in the 19th century.

Wellington, Nevada

It is in Smith Valley, for which it serves as the source of essential services, and is very close to the town of Smith itself.

Wellington, New South Wales

Ian O'Brien — Olympic gold medallist in the 200m breaststroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics, grew up in Wellington

Wellington, Texas

John Aaron - NASA engineer (born here and reared in Oklahoma) who played an important role in the Apollo 12 mission

The proposed town of Wellington was located on the land owned by Ernest T. O’Neil who was promoting this location, and had been given its proposed name by his wife, Matilda Anna Elisabeth “Lizzie” O’Neil, who greatly admired the Duke of Wellington, hero of the Battle of Waterloo.

Wellington, Western Cape

In 1840 the town of Wellington was proclaimed after the Duke who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.

Wellington's Victory

Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria, Op. 91 (Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria) is a minor 15-minute long orchestral work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven to commemorate the Duke of Wellington's victory over Joseph Bonaparte at the Battle of Vitoria in Spain on 21 June 1813.

Whiteshill, Gloucestershire

During the Second World War a Wellington bomber crashed nearby, in the local feature called 'Bomber Lake'; it is understood that all the Canadian crew perished

Winifred Knights

Amongst her most notable works are The Marriage at Cana produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the National Art Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington and her winning Rome Scholarship entry The Deluge which is now held by Tate Britain.

World March for Peace and Nonviolence

The March started October 2 (Gandhi's birthday), 2009 in Wellington, New Zealand and finished on January 2, 2010 in Punta de Vacas, Mendoza, Argentina.


Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

Andrew Durante

Durante played every minute of the 2009–10 season for the Phoenix and along with Ben Sigmund for most of the season and utility Jon McKain, helped Wellington to their best defensive season in their history, conceding just 29 goals in 27 league matches of the regular season.

April 2007 in Africa

In Zimbabwe investigating officer Wellington Ngena accuses the Government of South Africa's Scorpions intelligence department of training members of the Movement for Democratic Change in combat to overthrow the Government of Zimbabwe.

Basil Crockett

Educated at Wellington, he commissioned into the 17th Lancers and attended Staff College in Poona, India, before serving on the Northwest Frontier and with the Gordon Highlanders during the Boer War, where he received the Queen's South Africa Medal bearing the clasps for South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Cape Colony.

Battle of Boxtel

The battle is cited in Sharpe's Tiger when Sharpe is a private in Wellington's Regiment.

Beardmore 160 hp

A Beardmore 160 hp has been restored to airworthy condition by The Vintage Aviator Ltd, an aircraft restoration company based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Craigmore Christian School

All students in years 3-12 attend camps in various Australian locations such as Wellington, Wirraway Homestead, Port Hughes, Flinders Ranges, Kangaroo Island, Canberra, Victor Harbor and Aldinga Beach.

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.

Edgar Kain

He went to Croydon School, Wellington and Christ's College, Canterbury later studying under Professor Von Zedlitz in Wellington.

Ernest Martin Jehan

He was posted to HMS Duke of Wellington on 2 December HMS Raven on 9 December and back to Duke of Wellington I on 26 March 1901.

Evelyn Hellicar

Around 1889 he entered into a short lived partnership with Sydney Vacher at Wellington Street, Strand, London.

George Forester

He was the only son of Brooke Forester of Dothill in Wellington and Elizabeth daughter and heir of George Weld of Willey Park.

German submarine U-256

On 8 October, the outbound boat was attacked by a Leigh light-equipped British Wellington bomber of No. 612 Squadron RAF in the Bay of Biscay.

Golden Bay Air

The airline currently operates two Piper Aircraft from Takaka to Wellington and Karamea, and also from Nelson to Takaka and Karamea with connecting road shuttle services to the Abel Tasman National Park, the Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park and to and from Takaka township.

Hawke Cup

Teams from New Zealand's 4 "main centres", Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin have not usually competed for the Hawke Cup, although they did participate for the latter half of the 1990s.

History of cricket in New Zealand from 2000–01

2nd Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington – New Zealand won by an innings and 38 runs

Hit Radio X105

In January 2010, Iain Stables spurred on X105 workmate Warwick Slow into gatecrashing a party held for Prince William at Premier House in Wellington.

HMS Iron Duke

HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line also named after the first Duke of Wellington

James Brontë Gatenby

He progressed from St. Patrick's College in Wellington to Jesus College, Oxford.

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.

Malcolm McKinnon

The McKinnon brothers are great-great-grandsons of John Plimmer, known as the father of Wellington.

Mary Jane Seaman

Mary Jane Seaman was an actress who played in the provinces before playing Mrs Wellington de Boots in Joseph Stirling Coyne's comedy Everybody's Friend at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in October 1859.

N class

NZR N class, a class of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department and the Wellington and Manawatu Railway

Neville Hiscock

Neville and his younger brother Dave Hiscock grew up in Stokes Valley, a suburb near Wellington, where they both rode an old BSA Bantam in grass paddocks, and later perfected their skills on the infamous Rimutaka hill climb nearby north of Upper Hutt.

No Moon Tonight

No Moon Tonight is a World War II autobiographical book by Halifax/Lancaster/Wellington bomber navigator Don Charlwood.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Panharmonicon

Beethoven apparently composed his piece "Wellington's Victory" (Op. 91) to be played on this behemoth mechanical orchestral organ to commemorate Arthur Wellesley's victory over the French at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

In the summer of 1914 he and his twin brother were sent to St. Aubyns Preparatory School at Rottingdean, and four years later both boys entered the Orange dormitory at Wellington College where Percy was continually referred to as Bernard Minor incorrectly throughout his time at Wellington College.

RCRD

Richter City Roller Derby, a roller derby league from Wellington, New Zealand

Redwood Railway Station

The WMR built the original route of the NIMT between Wellington and Longburn and it was purchased by the New Zealand Railways Department in December 1908.

Ron Chippindale

Chippindale, 74, was struck by a car which went out of control in Porirua, 20 km north of Wellington, at 7.25am 12 February 2008, and was killed instantly.

Rough Opinion

Rough Opinion, formerly known as The Mau, is a Samoan Hip hop group comprising MC’s Kosmo, “Khas the Fieldstyle Orator,” (now known as Tha Feelstyle) and DJ Rockit V. Created in 1990, in Wellington, New Zealand, the group first named themselves The Mau, as they took their name from the Samoan organization that agitated the country’s independence under both German and New Zealand colonial governments.

Royal Factory of La Moncloa

Later that year General Hill took his troops from Madrid to join the main army under Wellington near Alba de Tormes.

Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery

The examination batteries at Fort Takapuna, Point Gordon in Wellington, Fort Jervois and Howlett Point at the entrance to Port Chalmers were manned around the clock until 15 March 1915.

Sarah Jane Parton

Parton currently lives in Wellington with her partner, musician Luke Buda (The Phoenix Foundation), and their two sons.

Shakespeare's Globe Centres

Sam Wanamaker visited New Zealand in 1990, and the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand was founded in Wellington the following year by Dawn Saunders.

Southern Maori

Population centres that came to the electorate through this measure included Wellington, Masterton, Palmerston North, Napier, and Wairoa.

Wellington Cable Car

Initially both contracts were won by Harbour City Cable Car Ltd, a joint venture between the Stagecoach Group, which had purchased the buses, and East by West, a Wellington ferry operator.

Wellington Cantonment

The list of alumni of the DSSC at Wellington reads like a Who's Who of the armed forces and includes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Fijian strongman Sitiveni Rabuka, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, head of German special forces Hans-Christoph Ammon, Naval Commander Dhananjay Joshi and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India R.N.Malhotra.

Wellington tramway

Wellington Tramway Museum, established in 1965 after the closure of the Wellington tramway system

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

The Wellington railway station is located in the Wellington area of Nanaimo, British Columbia.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

At the suggestion of the College's Principal Hubert Wellington, she moved to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1940, near to where a group of Hampstead-based modernists had settled, at Carbis Bay, to escape the war.This was a pivotal moment in her life.