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  New Zealand - A Golfers Dream
New Zealand has been described by National Geographic as a 'world in miniature'.
New Zealand is unfettered by the crowds you'd find elsewhere.
Famed for being one of the three major winemaking regions in New Zealand, Hawke's Bay is home to internationally acclaimed wines and is the premiur New Zealand destination for food, wine and lifesytle.
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 Kelburn, New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kelburn is an inner suburb of Wellington, New Zealand.
Other features include Kelburn Viaduct, one of the oldest bridges of its type in New Zealand, connecting to Karori, and the Kelburn shopping area, which is noted for its fine restaurants.
Kelburn was one of the earliest settled suburbs of Wellington, due its close proximity to the main government/commercial district of Wellington.
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 Sing Ong Tai Chi - Kelburn, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sing Ong Tai Chi - Kelburn, NZ This page is for the beginner classes taught by Kin Chan in Kelburn (New Zealand).
New students can join any time, and are welcome to come and watch a class for free before joining.
In 1990 I immigrated to New Zealand and began learning martial arts in earnest.
www.singongtaichi.com /class.php?id=kcke   (241 words)

  
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He planned and ordered a new mansion house to be built and joined to the existing castle, with a new and grander front door facing north.
Besides Kelburn, this included land in Dalry, Stewarton, Corshill and Fenwick, and the estate of Hawkhead outside Paisley, plus estates in Dunbartonshire, Fife, Northumberland and the greater part of Cumbrae, the island which lies directly across the water from Kelburn.
The seventh Earl, who was Governor of New Zealand from 1892 to 1898, and the eighth and ninth Earls, were all distinguished naval officers.
www.kelburncastle.com /main/history/index.asp   (837 words)

  
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Kelburn is known for its historical gardens and rare trees.
Those looking for the widest range of activities should visit Kelburn Country Centre, the park adjoining the castle grounds, where there is a riding school; exhibitions, the 'Secret Forest' and a large range of play areas and challenges for children.
Kelburn has a berth in Largs Yacht Haven marina, which can be made available for visitors staying at the castle and sailing or boating trips can be arranged for those wanting to discover the beauties of the Clyde.
www.kelburncastle.com /main/activities/index.asp   (512 words)

  
 Stories tagged with new zealand at - The Corridor (a cricket blog)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
New Zealand started the day looking to overtake Sri Lanka’s modest first innings of 154, and made serene progress untill Sri Lanka’s bowlers engineered a collapse, slumping from 2 for 106 to 6 for 113.
New Zealand had some early alarms with Lasith Malinga, as you do when he’s sending them down at 94 mph, but are 2 for 85 at stumps.
New Zealand are 265 for 6, and if Fleming and the tail can nurdle out another 100 runs, they will be well set for this Test match.
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 New Zealand: Host Institutions
The University of Auckland, established in 1883, is New Zealand’s largest university.
The University of Otago, New Zealand’s first university, was established in 1869.
Dunedin is a typical New Zealand town, a mixture of old and new, surrounded by rolling green countryside.
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 Kelburn, New Zealand biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kelburn is the nearest hill suburb to the west of central Wellington in New Zealand.
The Kelburn Viaduct is a road bridge erected in the days when New Zealand had very few bridges of its type.
It is also the home of many upper-middle class families due to the views of Wellington, the Botanical Gardens, the proximity to town and the high level of sunshine.
www.biography.ms /Kelburn,_New_Zealand.html   (175 words)

  
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New Zealand lies in the southern Pacific Ocean, 1,600 km east of Australia.
The Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti O Waitangi) lays the foundation for the way Mäori and other New Zealanders share responsibility for this country and is considered the founding document of the nation of New Zealand.
New Zealand is 12 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) and two hours ahead of Australian Eastern Standard Time.
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Fresh air, breathtaking scenery and outdoor activities are the main attractions of New Zealand, with a tremendously friendly, honest and helpful population, colloquially nicknamed after their country's distinct symbol, the unusual but amiable flightless kiwi bird.
There are also scenic flights among New Zealand’s highest peaks and over the glaciers, and snow landings, one of the best ways to appreciate the magnitude and splendour of the area; or a chance to combine a flight and ice walking on a guided heli-hike excursion.
The Fjordland is the most dramatic and beautiful part of New Zealand, a region of waterfalls and misty virgin forests, snow-clad mountains and towering granite peaks, crystal clear lakes, rivers and remote fjords.
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 Cable Car
The journey goes under the motorway, through the three tunnels, past Kelburn Park and Victoria University and on to the top entrance of the city's Botanic Garden where various walks begin and where the Carter Observatory and Planetarium are located.
When new residential developments were proposed for Kelburn, it was suggested that a cable car or funicular could be built to provide easy access.
The plan was to build a tramway between the city and Kelburn, and link it by carriage to Karori, a settlement on the far side of Kelburn.
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 Wellington New Zealand Transport Museums : Transport Museum Wellington New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Wellington, New Zealand transport museums are great for the vehicle enthusiast.
Wellington, New Zealand has a range of transport museums where you can learn about traditional and contemporary transport in NZ.
Located within a few metres of the Kelburn stop of the Cable Car, you’ll learn about the colourful 100-year history of this “relentless red machine”.
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 HorizonsUnlimited - Grant and Susan Johnson - Motorcycle Travels in New Zealand
Dunedin was the furthest south town we visited in New Zealand, and we turned north again for Christchurch.
New Zealand was fabulous for touring by motorcycle - incredibly scenic, lots of twisty roads, safe and excellent infrastructure.
: Auckland --> Hamilton --> Waitomo --> New Plymouth --> Wanganui --> Wellington.
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 Welcome to The International Railway Traveler (IRT)
New Plymouth used to be the site of several Maori Pas including Paritutu, the prominent peak next to the port.
Kelburn was and is one of the city's earliest forms of transport.
New Zealand Rail abandoned the line in 1990 and sold it to a preservation trust.
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 Scoop: New Zealand National Climate Summary 2004
For New Zealand as a whole, there were seven cooler than average months (February through April, and July through September, and December), four warmer than average months (January, May, June and November), and one month with mean temperatures close to the climatological average (October).
For New Zealand as a whole, there were four warmer than average months (January, May, June and November), seven cooler than average months (February through April, and July through September, plus December), and one near average month (October).
Also, New Zealand looks set to conduct fingerprinting and eye scans at airports; and a man is in hospital after being bitten by a wild stallion that wanted his mare for its harem.
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Kelburn is thought to be the oldest castle in Scotland to have been continuously inhabited by the same family.
It was completed in 1700, and this larger home was now called Kelburn House, because castles had become unfashoinable at the time and regarded as primitive and uncomfortable.
When not at sea, they spent most of their lives at Kelburn, attempting to find sufficient resources to keep it maintained.
www.kelburncountrycentre.com /main/history/history02.asp   (836 words)

  
 Marimari.com : New Zealand
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand as well as the cultural, administrative, and political center of the country.
In mid-November, the New Zealand Wine & Food Festival is held at the Square.
The cable car on Lambton Quay has been hauling people up the steep, 610 meter incline to Kelburn since 1902, and it is one of the few such vehicles left in the world.
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Wellington was recently voted New Zealand’s top city—the country’s most exciting, go-ahead city, and the best place to live.
It is New Zealand’s political, commercial, financial and cultural capital.
The Law School occupies the historic government buildings opposite Parliament and adjacent to the High Court while the schools of Architecture and Design occupy a large, purpose-designed award winning building in the midst of cafes, galleries and old bookstores in the central city’s heart.
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 Wellington, New Zealand
Museum buffs are spoilt for choice with the Wellington Museum of City and Sea having recently reopened on Queen's Wharf and the majestic Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa gracing the shores nearby.
One of the oldest areas of town, it was divided by the motorway extension in the 1970s which ripped through the middle of the Bolton St Cemetery, but much of its colonial charm survives in the narrow backstreets which can be explored on foot.
It wasn't until 1840 following settlement by British pioneers from the New Zealand Company that the city was named Wellington in honour of the Iron Duke who lent his support to the company.
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 Victoria University of Wellington Chooses New Fortinet FortiGate™ 5000 Platform to Secure Campus Network
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND, Sept. 29, 2004 - Fortinet, Inc., the confirmed market leader in Unified Threat Management and only provider of ASIC-accelerated network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection, today announced that Victoria University of Wellington, a leading Australasian university in New Zealand, has selected Fortinet to provide network security to its campus networks.
Victoria University of Wellington is one of the largest research institutions in New Zealand, and is recognized as one of the country's top three research universities, with a track record of using innovative information technology solutions.
Victoria University of Wellington is New Zealand's Capital City University, and a leading Australasian university.
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I walked down the street to a place called Beethoven Haus and settled for a bed in a 4 person room for $16/night.
I took the tram up to Kelburn Park and walked back thru the botanical gardens.
I stayed at the Convent Lodge in New Brighton.
www.travel-library.com /pacific/new_zealand/jim_burke.html   (1248 words)

  
 Foundation For Environmental Education New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Based in Copenhagen, FEE is one of the World's foremost, non-government environmental education programmes, operating in 34 countries.
New Zealand is the second Pacific rim country to join FEE, following Chile.
FEE-NZ's initial programme for implementation in New Zealand is the well-known “Blue Flag” beach and marina management programme.
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 Anglicans Online | New Zealand
The New Zealand branch of the well-known organisation that originated in England.
DEFT is the Distance Education, Formation and Training Unit of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.
This library serves the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia and the Methodist Church of New Zealand.
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 academics | Study Abroad in NEW ZEALAND
Established in 1883, the University of Auckland is one of New Zealand’s oldest and largest universities and is the country’s leading research institution.
This campus is set on park-like grounds near the center of the cosmopolitan city of Auckland, making it a haven from the city’s center, but allowing students to take full advantage of all that its urban setting has to offer in only a 5 minute walk.
Sitting in the center of New Zealand's scenic harbor capital, Victoria's main Kelburn campus enjoys an idyllic setting.
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 Wellington, City Guide - Wellington Accommodations from Pamela Lanier
A predator-proof fence keeps rare and endangered native wildlife safe, and it is the only place on mainland New Zealand where spotted kiwi, saddleback and hihi roam free in their natural environment.
The Kapiti Island Nature Reserve is one of New Zealand's premier conservation treasures, allowing a unique opportunity to observe rare birds that are absent from the mainland.
The Wairarapa is one of New Zealand's most esteemed wine-producing areas and very accessible from Wellington.
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 Photography by Scott Haefner | New Zealand
Caption: I found this cool sprial staircase when I was searching for the book 'Explore New Zealand, 60 driving tours,' which was recommended by the IEP staff.
I believe this is one of several varieties of native New Zealand Tree Fern.
You have caught the essence of New Zealand with your photographs.
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Orders are designed considering the tastes and culture of New Zealand.
Flower substitutions occur only when necessary due to the lack of availability of some flowers in New Zealand.
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 Wellington Cable Car
The Cable Car provides a unique form of transport to the city to the suburb of Kelburn and the top of the Botanic Garden.
The cable car journeys up under the motorway, through the three tunnels, past Kelburn Park and Victoria University and on to the top entrance of the city's Botanic Garden where various walks begin and where the Carter Observatory and Planetarium are located.
Originally built by Upland Estate Real Estate company to provide a means of transport to the farm land in Kelburn, which upon completion of the Cable car system in 1902 was developed into the suburb it is today.
www.wellingtonnz.com /cablecar   (350 words)

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