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| Object MovedThis object may be found here.For the local government area, see Wellington City.For other uses, see Wellington (disambiguation).It is in the Wellington region at the southern tip of the North Island, near the geographical centre of the country.Like many cities, Wellington's urban area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority.Greater Wellington or the Wellington Region means the entire urban area, plus the rural parts of the cities and the Kapiti Coast, and across the Rimutaka Range to the Wairarapa.Museums and Cultural Institutions
9.Name
Wellington was named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo.The Duke's title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset.Wellington goes by three names.Tara refers to Wellington Harbour and means "the great harbour of Tara".Importance
Wellington is New Zealand's political centre, housing Parliament and the head offices of all government ministries and departments, plus the bulk of the foreign diplomatic missions based in New Zealand.Wellington has the 12th best quality of living in the world, according to a 2007 study by consulting company Mercer.Of cities with English as the primary language, Wellington ranked fourth.European settlement began with the arrival of an advance party of the New Zealand Company on the ship Tory, on 20 September 1839, followed by 150 settlers on the Aurora on 22 January 1840.Wellington suffered serious damage in a series of earthquakes in 1848 and from another earthquake in 1855.The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on a fault line to the north and east of Wellington.It ranks as probably the most powerful earthquake in recorded New Zealand history, with an estimated magnitude of at least 8.Much of this land was subsequently reclaimed and is now part of Wellington's central business district.For many years after the 1855 earthquake, the majority of buildings constructed in Wellington were made entirely from wood.While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction.Residents also place their hopes of survival in good building regulations, which gradually became more stringent in the course of the twentieth century.Left: The old Government Buildings (now occupied by the Victoria University of Wellington Law Faculty); Centre: the Beehive, Parliament's Executive Wing.In 1865, Wellington became the capital of New Zealand, replacing Auckland, where William Hobson had established his capital in 1841.Parliament first sat in Wellington on 7 July 1862, but the city did not become the official capital for some time.In November 1863 the Premier Alfred Domett moved a resolution before Parliament (in Auckland) that "...Apparently there was concern that the southern regions, where the gold fields were located, would form a separate colony.Commissioners from Australia (chosen for their neutral status) pronounced the opinion that Wellington was suitable because of its harbour and central location.Parliament officially sat in Wellington for the first time on 26 July 1865.The population of Wellington was then 4,900.Wellington is the seat of New Zealand's highest court, the Supreme Court of New Zealand.General, is in Newtown, opposite the Basin Reserve.Satellite photo of the Wellington conurbation: (1) Wellington; (2) Lower Hutt; (3) Upper Hutt; (4) Porirua.The suburbs of Wellington City.On a clear day the snowcapped Kaikoura Ranges are visible to the south across the strait.To the north stretch the golden beaches of the Kapiti Coast.On the east the Rimutaka Range divides Wellington from the broad plains of the Wairarapa, a wine region of national acclaim.It is also the most remote capital in the World (i.It is more densely populated than most other settlements in New Zealand, due to the small amount of building space available between the harbour and the surrounding hills.Wellington has very few suitable areas in which to expand and this has resulted in the development of the surrounding cities in the greater urban area.Because of its location in the roaring forties latitudes and its exposure to omnipresent winds coming through Cook Strait, the city is known to Kiwis as "Windy Wellington".More than most cities, life in Wellington is dominated by its central business district (CBD).Approximately 62,000 people work in the CBD, only 4,000 fewer than work in Auckland's CBD, despite that city having three times Wellington's population.Wellington's cultural and nightlife venues concentrate in Courtenay Place and surroundings located in the southern part of the CBD, making the inner city suburb of Te Aro the largest entertainment destination in New Zealand.Wellington has the highest average income of a main urban area in New Zealand and the highest percentage of people with tertiary qualifications.Wellington has a reputation for its picturesque natural harbour and green hillsides adorned with tiered suburbs of colonial villas.The CBD is sited close to Lambton Harbour, an arm of Wellington Harbour.Wellington Harbour lies along an active geological fault, which is clearly evident on its straight western coast.The land to the west of this rises abruptly, meaning that many of Wellington's suburbs sit high above the centre of the city.There is a network of bush walks and reserves maintained by the Wellington City Council and local volunteers.Rongotai, the site of Wellington International Airport.On the hill west of the city centre are Victoria University and Wellington Botanic Garden.Both can be reached by a funicular railway, the Wellington Cable Car.It is now a conservation island, providing refuge for endangered species, much like Kapiti Island further up the coast.There is access during daylight hours by the Dominion Post Ferry.Wellington CBD, between Makara Beach and Cape Terawhiti.Demographics
The urban area of Wellington stretches across the city council areas of Porirua, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt and Wellington.The remaining areas are largely mountainous and sparsely farmed or parkland and are outside the urban area boundary.The relative lack of older people in Wellington is less marked when the neighbouring Kapiti Coast District is included.Overall, Wellington's age structure matches the national average pretty closely.Arts and culture
Wellington is considered the arts and culture capital of New Zealand, and is the centre of the nation's film industry.Directors like Jane Campion and Vincent Ward have managed to reach the world's screens with their independent spirit.Te Papa ("Our Place"), the Museum of New Zealand.Wellington is home to Te Papa Tongarewa (the Museum of New Zealand), the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Museum, Colonial Cottage, the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the Cable Car Museum, Old Saint Paul's, and the Law School (largest wooden building in the southern hemisphere) and the Wellington City Art Gallery.Food
Wellington's cafe culture is extremely strong.The city has more cafes per head of population than New York.International Festival of the Arts, annual International Jazz Festival, and major events such as Cuba Street Carnival, New Zealand Fringe Festival, Summer City, New Zealand Affordable Art Show, numerous film festivals, and World of Wearable Art.Music
The local music scene has produced bands such as The Phoenix Foundation, Shihad, Fly My Pretties, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Black Seeds, Fur Patrol, Flight Of The Conchords and Trinity Roots.The New Zealand School of Music was established in 2005 through a merger of the conservatory and theory programmes at Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Nevine String Quartet and Chamber Music New Zealand are based in Wellington.Performing Arts
Wellington is home to the National Opera Company, City Gallery, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, St James' Theatre, Downstage Theatre, Bats Theatre, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and the New Zealand International Arts Festival.Wellington is also home to groups that perform Improvised Theatre and Improvisational comedy, including Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT), The Improvisors and youth group, Joe Improv.Poet Bill Manhire, director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, has turned the Creative Writing Programme at Victoria University of Wellington into a forge of new literary activity.Arts Programmes and Services Manager Eric Vaughn Holowacz and a small team based in the Abel Smith Street facility have produced ambitious new initiatives such as Opening Notes, Drive by Art, the annual Artsplash Festival, and new public art projects.Wellington 500 street race for touring cars, between 1985 and 1996.Night panorama of the city centre taken from Mt.Panorama from Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn.Wellington from Mount Victoria.Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.Living and working in Wellington.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.For the local government area, see Wellington City.For other uses, see Wellington (disambiguation).New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania.It is in the Wellington region at the southern tip of the North Island, near the geographical centre of the country.Like many cities, Wellington's urban area extends well beyond the boundaries of a single local authority.Greater Wellington or the Wellington Region means the entire urban area, plus the rural parts of the cities and the Kapiti Coast, and across the Rimutaka Range to the Wairarapa.Name
2 Importance
3 Settlement
4 Earthquakes
5 New Zealand's capital
6 Location and geography
7 Energy
8 Demographics
8.Museums and Cultural Institutions
9.Name
Wellington was named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo.The Duke's title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset.Wellington goes by three names.Tara refers to Wellington Harbour and means "the great harbour of Tara".Importance
Wellington is New Zealand's political centre, housing Parliament and the head offices of all government ministries and departments, plus the bulk of the foreign diplomatic missions based in New Zealand.It is a centre of New Zealand's film and theatre industry.Wellington has the 12th best quality of living in the world, according to a 2007 study by consulting company Mercer.Of cities with English as the primary language, Wellington ranked fourth.Settlement
Legend recounts that Kupe discovered and explored the district in about the tenth century.The settlers constructed their first homes at Petone (which they called Britannia for a time) on the flat area at the mouth of the Hutt River.Please improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.Wellington suffered serious damage in a series of earthquakes in 1848 and from another earthquake in 1855.The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on a fault line to the north and east of Wellington.It ranks as probably the most powerful earthquake in recorded New Zealand history, with an estimated magnitude of at least 8.It caused vertical movements of two to three metres over a large area, including raising an area of land out of the harbour and turning it into a tidal swamp.Much of this land was subsequently reclaimed and is now part of Wellington's central business district.The area has high seismic activity even by New Zealand standards, with a major fault line running through the centre of the city, and several others nearby.Several hundred more minor fault lines have been identified within the urban area.For many years after the 1855 earthquake, the majority of buildings constructed in Wellington were made entirely from wood.While masonry and structural steel have subsequently been used in building construction, especially for office buildings, timber framing remains the primary structural component of almost all residential construction.Residents also place their hopes of survival in good building regulations, which gradually became more stringent in the course of the twentieth century.Left: The old Government Buildings (now occupied by the Victoria University of Wellington Law Faculty); Centre: the Beehive, Parliament's Executive Wing.Parliament House is just visible to the right.The historic former High Court building, future home of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.In 1865, Wellington became the capital of New Zealand, replacing Auckland, where William Hobson had established his capital in 1841.Parliament first sat in Wellington on 7 July 1862, but the city did not become the official capital for some time.Commissioners from Australia (chosen for their neutral status) pronounced the opinion that Wellington was suitable because of its harbour and central location.Parliament officially sat in Wellington for the first time on 26 July 1865.The population of Wellington was then 4,900.Wellington is the seat of New Zealand's highest court, the Supreme Court of New Zealand.Satellite photo of the Wellington conurbation: (1) Wellington; (2) Lower Hutt; (3) Upper Hutt; (4) Porirua.The suburbs of Wellington City.On a clear day the snowcapped Kaikoura Ranges are visible to the south across the strait.On the east the Rimutaka Range divides Wellington from the broad plains of the Wairarapa, a wine region of national acclaim.It is more densely populated than most other settlements in New Zealand, due to the small amount of building space available between the harbour and the surrounding hills.Wellington has very few suitable areas in which to expand and this has resulted in the development of the surrounding cities in the greater urban area.Because of its location in the roaring forties latitudes and its exposure to omnipresent winds coming through Cook Strait, the city is known to Kiwis as "Windy Wellington".More than most cities, life in Wellington is dominated by its central business district (CBD).Approximately 62,000 people work in the CBD, only 4,000 fewer than work in Auckland's CBD, despite that city having three times Wellington's population.Wellington's cultural and nightlife venues concentrate in Courtenay Place and surroundings located in the southern part of the CBD, making the inner city suburb of Te Aro the largest entertainment destination in New Zealand.Wellington has the highest average income of a main urban area in New Zealand and the highest percentage of people with tertiary qualifications.Wellington has a reputation for its picturesque natural harbour and green hillsides adorned with tiered suburbs of colonial villas.The CBD is sited close to Lambton Harbour, an arm of Wellington Harbour.Wellington Harbour lies along an active geological fault, which is clearly evident on its straight western coast.The land to the west of this rises abruptly, meaning that many of Wellington's suburbs sit high above the centre of the city.There is a network of bush walks and reserves maintained by the Wellington City Council and local volunteers.Rongotai, the site of Wellington International Airport.On the hill west of the city centre are Victoria University and Wellington Botanic Garden.Both can be reached by a funicular railway, the Wellington Cable Car.Ward Island and Mokopuna Island.Somes Island is large enough for settlement.It is now a conservation island, providing refuge for endangered species, much like Kapiti Island further up the coast.Wellington CBD, between Makara Beach and Cape Terawhiti.Demographics
The urban area of Wellington stretches across the city council areas of Porirua, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt and Wellington.The relative lack of older people in Wellington is less marked when the neighbouring Kapiti Coast District is included.Kapiti Coast residents are over 80.Overall, Wellington's age structure matches the national average pretty closely.Arts and culture
Wellington is considered the arts and culture capital of New Zealand, and is the centre of the nation's film industry.Te Papa ("Our Place"), the Museum of New Zealand.Wellington is home to Te Papa Tongarewa (the Museum of New Zealand), the Museum of Wellington City and Sea, the Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Museum, Colonial Cottage, the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the Cable Car Museum, Old Saint Paul's, and the Law School (largest wooden building in the southern hemisphere) and the Wellington City Art Gallery.Food
Wellington's cafe culture is extremely strong.The city has more cafes per head of population than New York.International Festival of the Arts, annual International Jazz Festival, and major events such as Cuba Street Carnival, New Zealand Fringe Festival, Summer City, New Zealand Affordable Art Show, numerous film festivals, and World of Wearable Art.Music
The local music scene has produced bands such as The Phoenix Foundation, Shihad, Fly My Pretties, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Black Seeds, Fur Patrol, Flight Of The Conchords and Trinity Roots.The New Zealand School of Music was established in 2005 through a merger of the conservatory and theory programmes at Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington.New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Nevine String Quartet and Chamber Music New Zealand are based in Wellington.Performing Arts
Wellington is home to the National Opera Company, City Gallery, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, St James' Theatre, Downstage Theatre, Bats Theatre, the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and the New Zealand International Arts Festival.Wellington is also home to groups that perform Improvised Theatre and Improvisational comedy, including Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT), The Improvisors and youth group, Joe Improv.Poet Bill Manhire, director of the International Institute of Modern Letters, has turned the Creative Writing Programme at Victoria University of Wellington into a forge of new literary activity.The Learning Connexion, offer training and creative development.Arts Programmes and Services Manager Eric Vaughn Holowacz and a small team based in the Abel Smith Street facility have produced ambitious new initiatives such as Opening Notes, Drive by Art, the annual Artsplash Festival, and new public art projects.The city is also home to experimental arts publication White Fungus Magazine.Wellington 500 street race for touring cars, between 1985 and 1996.World Mountain Running Championships in 2005.Panorama from Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn.View from the Brooklyn Wind Turbine, Brooklyn, 2005.Wellington from Mount Victoria.Living and working in Wellington.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.OR BROWSERS THAT HAVE THEIR SCRIPTING TURNED OFF...Welcome to Wellington Management, where we are passionate about investing...Understand the types of relationships we build with our clients and the way we serve many of them.The Wellington Management Morning Meeting
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An electric mix of cultural heritage, cosmopolitan influences and the good life is what awaits you in Wellington.Throughout the year Wellington hosts a colourful array of events that attract visitors from afar.Visitors to Wellington can discover a magnificent legacy of historic buildings and architectural treasures.This period stretches over thousands of years to San and Khoi groups.Bosman Family Vineyards nestled in the shadow of the Limiet Mountain near Wellington, are extremely ...Dunstone celebrated their opening in style on Wednesday, 24 October 2007.Op Vrydag, 19 Oktober 2007, het sowat 200 gaste die voorreg gehad om saam met Bovlei Wynkelder hul...Nestling at the foot of the Groenberg, the historic town of Wellington lies in a picturesque valley on the banks of the Kromme River with the majestic Hawequa Mountains standing guard on its eastern border.Wellington, in the heart of the Boland and rich in cultural, religious and educational history, is an unsurpassed area to enjoy the Winelands and scenery of the Western Cape in South Africa.Wellington, quite accessible to Cape Town International Airport, is conveniently central to many places of interest across all points of the compass.There are five dramatic and scenic mountain passes nearby.Historic Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Tulbagh and Paarl are neighbouring towns, each full of attractions of their own.Wellington offers a mix of fabulous shopping treats to tourists.Wellington boasts two leather factories producing beautiful and quality leather products such as shoes, handbags, book covers and other smaller articles.Furthermore there are towel factory shops, fruit juice kiosks selling to the public, glassware gift shops and many other places to browse around in addition to the more prominent chain stores.Art galleries, antique furniture, ceramic tiles and Bali furniture rounds off a true shopping experience.Over 51,500 eyeballs will visit Wellington.FREE specials and discounts delivered to your email!Click here to go to the Wellington noticeboard at LocalNotices.Can't find what you are looking for?CLICK HERE for links to more Wellington businesses.Please also check out the Links page as there are additional links for accommodation, a number of links to tourist attractions in the area, plus a few to local businesses that do not advertise on the website.Wellington is a small country town standing between the River Tone and the beautiful Blackdown Hills.It has a large number of speciality shops from which you can buy a wide range of goods.Wellington Food Town is a major new initiative to make Wellington the 'Food Town' of Somerset and is a partnership between Somerset Food Links, Taunton Deane Borough Council and Wellington Economic Partnership.Junction 26 of the M5, Wellington is an ideal place to break a long journey.The earliest reference to the town is to be found in a grant made between 899 and 909 where it was called "Weolingtun".The town was also mentioned in the Domesday Book, which recorded that land at "Walintone" and West Buckland was being worked by 61 farmers, 65 smallholders and 32 serfs.Wellington Park, which was given to Wellington town by the Fox family in 1903, has recently been restored thanks to a Heritage Lottery grant.Wellington Monument Wellington Monument, built in honour of the Duke of Wellington, is a major landmark in the area and visible from many parts of the town.Although Arthur Wellesley took his title of "Viscount Wellington of Wellington and Talavera" from Wellington in Somerset in 1809, and later became Duke of Wellington, he is reputed to have visited the town only once (in 1819), even though he had an estate in the area.Apart from the connection with the Duke of Wellington (the reason he chose Wellington for his title is unknown) the town of Wellington was also involved in the Monmouth Rebellion.Lord Chief Justice of England who took part in the trials of Guy Fawkes, Mary Queen of Scots and Sir Walter Raleigh.His monument stands in Wellington Parish Church.Wellington is twinned with Immenstadt,
Lillebonne and Torres Vedras."Wellington Website" in the subject line.Forthcoming events
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Click here to return to the top of the page.Warden by Wellington County Council.This is his third term as Warden for the County of Wellington.He served his first term in 1989 and held the position in 2007.Click here for this week's edition of the County Communications page as seen in the Wellington Advertiser.Past issues can be found here.Find out how you too can be a part of the Green Legacy Project.Beginning June 2005 complete agenda packages are available for download.Check here for County of Wellington Committee Dates and Times.Explore Wellington is our new interactive mapping system.Please view the Site map to find specific information or use the Search menu Above.Wellington Visitor Guide Now Available Online!Experience what Guelph and Wellington have to offer! |
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