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44 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.

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.

Albrecht Brandi

A few days later, on 12 September, she was attacked near the Moroccan coast by British Wellington aircraft.

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.

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.

Chris Finlayson

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

Coprosma macrocarpa

The shrub is naturalised in the northern part of the North Island and around Wellington.

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.

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).

Diplomatic Protection Squad

September 2001 - Following the September 11 attacks, members of the DPS, Armed Offenders Squad and the Special Tactics Group were involved in operations for two months at the Embassy of the United States in Wellington.

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.

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.

James Bragge

Within a short while he had opened a photographic studio in Manners Street, Wellington.

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.

Konstantin Dimopoulos

Born in Port Said, Egypt Dimopoulos spent the first eight years of his life living in Ismailia before moving with his family to Wellington, New Zealand.

Kosta Barbarouses

Before turning professional Barbarouses played for St. Patrick's College 1XI and for semi-professional clubs Wellington Olympic and Miramar Rangers in New Zealand's Central Premier League.

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.

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.

Max Cullen

Cullen was born in Wellington, New South Wales in 1940, but when he was one year old his family moved to Lawson in the Blue Mountains.

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.

Nigel Poett

Then in April 1937, Poett took leave to the city of Wellington in New Zealand, where he married Julia on 26 May 1937.

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.

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.

Pinky Agnew

Pinky Agnew, born in 1955 in Port Chalmers, is an actor, author, social commentator, and wedding celebrant based in Wellington in New Zealand .

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

It is double tracked with staggered side platforms; the up platform (north, towards Paraparaumu) is on the north side of the Tawa Street level crossing, the down platform (towards Wellington) on the south.

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.

Separation City

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

STOL

Horton, Inc of Wellington, Kansas offers STOL kits under the brand name Horton STOL-Craft, emphasizing that the modifications increase safety by allowing forced landings to occur at lower speeds and thus improve survivability.

Stout-legged Wren

The specific epithet honours Dr John Yaldwyn, Director of the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington, in recognition of his contributions to avian palaeontology.

Upton Magna

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

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

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.

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.


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.

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.

Battle of Boxtel

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

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.

Doug Zohrab

He was a newspaper copyholder and junior reporter on Wellington's Evening Post newspaper from 1934, then graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a masters degree in History in 1937 and became an assistant librarian at Parliament’s General Assembly Library.

Edmund Concanon

In this was they held onto the remain of the property in the parish of Killascobe; Edmund's father named the family home "Waterloo" in commemoration of Wellington's victory.

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.

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.

Glazier Systems

Glazier Systems was established in Wellington in 1995 by Tony Stewart, Rod Drury, Andrew Kissling and Pat Ryan.

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.

Gordon Challis

Challis's work has been linked with Louis Johnson (the most influential), Peter Bland and Charles Doyle, all three immigrant English poets writing in Wellington from the mid-1950s.

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 – game abandoned: tour cancelled following the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster

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

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)

James Brontë Gatenby

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

Ligonier, Pennsylvania

He initially called the town Ramseytown, later changed to Wellington (after the Duke of Wellington), and finally the name was changed to Ligonier.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Roderick Wellington

At the beginning of the 2006-07 season, after failing to sort out a contract with the Heat, Wellington signed for English Basketball League (second-tier) team Worthing Thunder where he played for two months, before re-signing with the Heat in November 2006.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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