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38 unusual facts about Wellington


2000 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards

The 2000 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards were held on Saturday 1 July 2000 at the St James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand.

4409 Kissling

It is named after Dr. Warwick Kissling, an amateur astronomer and mathematical modeller from Wellington, New Zealand.

Charles Roser

Charles Roser had part interest in a cheese business in Wellington, Ohio, before he went into the business of making candy and cookies in Kenton, Ohio.

Craig Ireson

The Word Collective's only regular spoken word event is "Howltearoa", a monthly open mic night at the Southern Cross Bar, off Cuba Street, Wellington.

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.

Diplomatic Protection Squad

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

Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems

The fourth edition cover is an image of a mural on a Wellington street created by Christopher Meech and a group of urban artists to generate thought about the topic of environmental degradation.

Egoraptor

He attended Wellington High School in Wellington, Florida.

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.

Filet-O-Fish

The use of farmed fish in the Filet-O-Fish first came about in 1981, when an owner of a New Zealand fisheries company was dissatisfied with the pollock Filet-O-Fish he purchased at the Courtenay Place, Wellington restaurant.

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.

Hundred of Taunton Deane

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by a merger of the Municipal Borough of Taunton, Wellington Urban District, Taunton Rural District, and Wellington Rural District.

John Hanbury Angus Sparrow

Not long after, in September 1916, when he was nearly ten, he was sent to a preparatory school called The Old Hall at Wellington in Shropshire.

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.

Niles Searls

When the family moved to Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada, Searls attended school in Wellington for five years before returning to New York to study at Rensselaerville Academy for the next three years.

Pahiatua Railway Station

At the time the Wairarapa Line was completed, the Wellington – Longburn line was owned and operated by the private Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, meaning all government trains from Wellington ran via the Wairarapa, giving a status of some importance to stations like Pahiatua.

Patti Miller

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

Pratt's Bottom

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

Psilocybe weraroa

It is fairly abundant in the early winter and spring months in lowland mixed rain-forest near Wellington.

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.

Ryan Runciman

He began appearing in commercials at the age of 5 and eventually became involved in film and television work while attending St. Patrick's College.

Separation City

It is a comedy-drama, following the collapse of two marriages, set in Wellington.

Sepioloidea pacifica

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

Taunton Tramway

Despite plans to build a network to neighbouring towns including Wiveliscombe, Wellington and North Petherton it started small with a route from Taunton railway station to the town centre.

Tawa Railway Station

Tawa Railway Station, originally called Tawa Flat, is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) and is part of the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand.

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).

Thorndon Mile

The Thorndon Mile is a Group One (G1) Thoroughbred horse race contested over 1,600 metres (one mile) and is held at Trentham Racecourse, Wellington, New Zealand.

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, Tamil Nadu

Wellington is home to The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), a premier tri-service training establishment that imparts training to middle level officers of the three wings of the Indian Armed Forces, friendly foreign countries and various Indian Civil Service departments.

Wellington, Texas

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.

Tex Winter - former college and NBA head coach who created the triangle offense in basketball

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.

Willard Hughes Rollings

He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago and a Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand, where he studied the culture and history of the Māori and also spent time in Christchurch and Wellington.


Alfoxton House

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

Alice Verlet

Other members included contralto Edna Thornton and pianist Mark Hambourg; the accompanist was Cyril Towsey of Wellington, New Zealand, who had carved out a career performing in such ad hoc groups.

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.

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.

Donald Wellington

Donald Wellington (born 10 September 1992) is a Sierra Leonean international footballer who plays in Sweden for IFK Värnamo, as a striker.

Dorice Reid

In April 2011, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tom Marsters announced Reid's appointment as High Commissioner of the Cook Islands to New Zealand, based in Wellington.

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.

Edwin Henry Mason Smith

Private Edwin Smith embarked on Troop Ship Number 93 from Wellington on 13 October 1917 and disembarked in Liverpool, England on 8 December.

Elwood Veitch

Veitch was born in Monck Township, Ontario, the son of Wellington Veitch and ALice Alma Brott, and was educated in Bracebridge, Ajax and at the University of British Columbia.

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.

Harry Holland

He has a memorial in the Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington, near that to Richard Seddon.

Harry Kirkwood

On 17 March 1958, at the end of the Expedition, Kirkwood was waiting for Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the rest of the Expedition with the Endeavour to transport them back to 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

Iron Duke

HMS Iron Duke named after Wellington, is the name of three ships in the Royal Navy, one of which is still in active service (a frigate)

Jonathan Binns Were

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

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.

Lucarno

Retired to stud for the 2009 season, Lucarno will stand at Wood Farm Stud in Ellerdine, Wellington, Shropshire, where he will be covering predominantly National Hunt mares, his size, strong physique, soundness and excellent conformation making him eminently suitable for that role.

Malcolm McKinnon

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

N class

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

No Moon Tonight

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

Onslow College

Onslow College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Johnsonville, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.

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

Patrick Jameson

Jameson was born on 10 November 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand and was educated in Lower Hutt before taking up employment as an assurance clerk with Colonial Mutual Life.

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.

Postcodes in New Zealand

Under the old system, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch were divided into postal zones, which were incorporated into the post code system for use in bulk mailings.

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.

Robert Ballard Long

General Lowry Cole sent a dispatch to Wellington to say that a French army of about 35,000 men had forced him from his defensive position and that he was falling back.

Roskilde Royal Mansion

During the English siege of Copenhagen in 1807, the mansion served as headquarters of general Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington.

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.

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.

SS Athenic

On 13 February 1902, she sailed into London on her maiden voyage to Wellington via the Canary Islands, Cape Town and Hobart.

The North Ship

Some of the poems were composed while Larkin was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, but the bulk were written in the period 1943 to 1944 when he was running the public library in Wellington, Shropshire and writing his second novel A Girl in Winter.

Thomas Wale

His sons included General Sir Charles Wale (born 15 August 1752) who became Colonel of the 33rd (The Duke of Wellington's) Regiment of Foot on 25 February 1831.

Tom Scudamore

Riding first for trainer Martin Pipe, since March 2007 Scudamore has been stable jockey for David Pipe (Martin's son) in Wellington, Somerset.

Victoria Embankment

Ships permanently moored by Victoria Embankment include HMS President, HMS Wellington and PS Tattershall Castle.

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 Square, Oxford

In the centre of the square is a small park, Wellington Square Gardens, owned by the University of Oxford.

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.

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.