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5 paź 2024 · Wellington, capital city, port, and major commercial centre of New Zealand, located in the extreme south of North Island. It lies on the shores and hills surrounding Wellington Harbour (Port Nicholson), an almost landlocked bay that is ranked among the world’s finest harbours. Mount Victoria rises.
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The city is New Zealand’s center of business and banking....
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The New Zealand Company chose Wellington as its first organised settlement in 1839. Its future was uncertain until 1865 when it was chosen as the colony’s new capital. Alongside the shift in the seat of government was the centralisation of businesses – many major firms set up their head offices in Wellington.
It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. [14]
Early European history from 1865 to 1890. 1890 - 1918. Wellington's history over the dawn of a new century. 1918 - 1939. Wellington's history post World War I. 1939 - 1972. Wellington's history during a new world war and beyond. 1972 - 2000. Wellington city in a new era.
22 sty 2012 · The New Zealand Company’s first settler ship, the Aurora, arrived at Petone to found the settlement that would become Wellington. Named for the first Duke of Wellington, the victor of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, the new town was part of the New Zealand Company’s systematic model of colonisation developed by Edwin Gibbon Wakefield.
This is a view of the fledgling town of Wellington in 1842. Houses hug the beach (now Lambton Quay), which sweeps around Kumutoto Point (Woodward St) towards Thorndon Flat. William Mein Smith, the New Zealand Company surveyor, painted the image with a view to attracting further settlers.
Wellington replaced Auckland as New Zealand's national capital in 1865, simply because it was situated closer to the South Island, the more populated of New Zealand's two main islands at the time. More than 50 years after Wellington became the birthplace of the 40-hour working week movement, New Zealand became the world's first country allowing ...
