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  One Tree Hill : Auckland : Travel : New Zealand : Suggestions : Hotels : Accommodation : Sightseeing : Booking : ...
One Tree Hill is one of Auckland's most recognisable landmarks and from its summit you get 360-degree views of the city.
Situated within Cornwall Park, One Tree Hill has at its peak a large obelisk that was erected early last century as a tribute to the local Maori population.
One Tree Hill has been public land since the 1840s and until recently was topped with a single pine tree.
www.tikitouring.co.nz /oth.htm   (230 words)

  
  One Tree Hill, New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the summit of the hill is the grave of Sir John Logan Campbell surmounted by an obelisk, and until recently a Radiata pine tree.
The final attack left the tree unable to recover and so was removed on October 26, 2000, due to the risk of it dying and falling down.
This song was written to commemorate the death of New Zealander Greg Carroll, an employee of the band who died in a motorcycle accident in Dublin on July 3, 1986.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One_Tree_Hill,_New_Zealand   (903 words)

  
 U2 New Zooland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The hill was named in 1840 by John Logan Campbell, a Scottish businessman and Doctor of Medicine who settled in Auckland in 1939, at the age of 21.
Though the Ngariki had occupied the hill at the time, the Ngati Awa had passed through on their migration south to Taranaki, and were asked to stay at One Tree Hill.
Soon after the establishment of Auckland, the summit of One Tree Hill was used as a lookout and signalling station to protect the infant town from hostile attack.
www.u2newzooland.com /one-tree-hill/essay/index.htm   (660 words)

  
 One Tree Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One Tree Hill, South Australia, a town in Australia
One Tree Hill, New Zealand, a volcanic peak and surrounding suburb in Auckland, New Zealand
One Tree Hill (song), a song by rock band U2 One Tree Hill (TV series), a television drama on the CW network in the U.S. A codename of the Mozilla Firefox 0.9 release
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/One_Tree_Hill   (164 words)

  
 News: One Tree Hill
One Tree Hill is so named after a lonely pine tree that grows on the summit of one of the volcanic cones that are dotted all over the city of Auckland.
New Zealand's most famous tree, on top of One Tree Hill in Auckland, was attacked, perhaps fatally, with a chainsaw early today.
The tree was the subject of a U2 song dedicated to the band's roadie, New Zealander Greg Carroll, who died in a motorbike accident in 1986.
www.u2station.com /news/archives/1997/03/one_tree_hill.php   (1092 words)

  
 Luther Smith: Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Both regions are hills, both are parts of the whole of the same landscape, but in proximal domestication and distal wildness the two regions posit the human intervention in nature as presence and absence.
Consider Clearing Storm, Northland, New Zealand, where large electric transmission towers are dwarfed by the space they traverse, marked by a brightening sky at the left horizon, and a darkening sky at the right horizon..
Smith's New Zealand photographs are representations of the landscape as site of habitation, in which the human use of the terrain has transformed it, even as Smith's photograph are themselves a further transformation into an image.
home.earthlink.net /~davidrnewman/smith.htm   (3214 words)

  
 BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | One Tree Hill loses its tree
New Zealand's celebrated One Tree Hill, immortalised in a song by the rock band U2, has lost its tree.
The Monterey pine was planted in the 1870s to replace a lone totara, a native tree sacred to local Maoris, which a white settler had hacked down for firewood.
Residents from Auckland gathered on the volcanic hill to watch as the tree came down.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/993105.stm   (243 words)

  
 One Tree Hill Becomes No Tree Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The tree was felled and removed by helicopter because two chain saw attacks in the last six years had left it listing dangerously and so badly damaged it could not support its own weight.
Residents from Auckland gathered on the 200-yard volcanic hill, visible from around the city, to watch the tree's demise.
It was planted in the 1870s to replace a lone totara, a native tree sacred to local Maoris, chopped down for firewood or fence posts by a settler.
www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/oct00/ap-new-zealand-no-102600.asp?format=print   (254 words)

  
 One Tree Hill by U2 Songfacts
One Tree Hill is the tallest of 5 volcanic islands in Auckland where Greg Carroll took Bono his first night in New Zealand.
In 1994, the One Tree Hill tree was the victim of a chainsaw attack by a Maori activist which almost ringbarked it.
Originally the tree on One Tree Hill was a native, as Nga Tangata Whenua (people of the land) were the original founders of Auckland.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=916   (1142 words)

  
 Register of Historic Places
One Tree Hill summit, One Tree Hill, AUCKLAND
The obelisk is an Auckland icon, standing on the summit of the Maori pa at Maungakiekie - also known as One Tree Hill - in the centre of Cornwall Park.
One Tree Hill Obelisk has considerable significance as a symbol of biculturalism and respect between Maori and Pakeha, and lies on a site of great importance to Maori.
www.historic.org.nz /Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=4601&sm   (604 words)

  
 One Tree Hill -= Join our many other excellent Warner Bros. =-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
News Editor Jobs We are currently looking for 4 News who will research and post information about One Tree Hill!
Superb My new best friend is a show about a group of teenagers and their families.
News Editor Applications I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who sent in applications for being of our four new news editors.
www.thesaylors.com /One/One-Tree-Hill.html   (773 words)

  
 AM Archive - One Tree Hill
COMPERE: Well, now to a single tree in New Zealand on One Tree Hill, one of Auckland's proudest and most recognisable landmarks - a lone pine that's finally to be cut down.
MICHAEL VINCENT: One Tree Hill by pop group U2 is a peaceful song dedicated to a close Maori friend of the group who died.
It's not the tree that is of significance to Natifatua, it's the summit.
www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s202246.htm   (587 words)

  
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 Archaeology - Cultural Tourist in New Zealand, Northland, Auckland, Coromandel
The cradle of European settlement in New Zealand.
New Zealand's largest city, culturally diverse, built on a volcanic field with many small cones converted to fortifications by Maori.
A favourite leisure place of New Zealanders with a glorious coastline, bush and a heritage of gold mining and the kauri timber industry.
www.nzarchaeology.org /northauckcoro.htm   (2662 words)

  
 One Tree Hill, Auckland
Further south is another volcanic cone, One Tree Hill (183m), one of the city's finest viewpoints.
On the highest point of the hill there once stood a sacred totara tree, which was ruthlessly felled by the first European settlers.
John Logan Campbell, the true founder of Auckland, established a large farm on One Tree Hill in the late 1830s.
www.planetware.com /auckland/one-tree-hill-nz-au-aot.htm   (135 words)

  
 WB38.com | WNOL-TV | New Orleans' WB | One Tree Hill News
As we reported in yesterday's One Tree Hill newsletter, Bethany planned on showing fans when she'd made it official with a name change in the OTH credits.
We don't want to spill too much about CMM's new flick "House of Wax" but we kind of assume that if you are a true fan you have already seen it so…Chad recently sat down for a chat with Dark Horizons about his new flick, his (evil?) character and more.
Nathan is off to catch up with his wifey on the road and bring her home to Tree Hill where she belongs.
wb38.trb.com /entertainment/network/stv-onetreehill-pkgnews,0,1620660.special?coll=wnol-home-1   (5255 words)

  
 One Tree Hill
I think One Tree Hill is in its third season so even if its on weekday there is still alot of episodes that have to be shown.
One Tree Hill is still scheduled for Monday January 16 at 12:00p.m.
New Zealand are up to Season Three Already and there showing it at 3:00p.m.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /eblah/b-tv/m-1135059124/s-all   (1546 words)

  
 we like snow
In addition to the all the visits we have planned, we are really looking forward to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, especially Food Culture USA because Alice Waters of The Edible Schoolyard will be there.
One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand (Lomo LC-A)
And two (1, 2) new del.icio.us link-lists for me to keep track of books and movies.
www.netspace.org /~morrill/2005_06_01_blogchive.html   (371 words)

  
 One Tree Hill = No Tree Hill, Auckland - Experiences, Tourism, and Things to Do - IgoUgo
One Tree Hill at a height of 183 metres is not as high as the peak of Mt Eden (196 metres and the highest volcanic cone in the area) but, like Mt Eden which is south of Auckland, One Tree provides a bird's-eye view of New Zealand's largest city.
One Tree is a bald hill shorn at the top of all but one single tree.
The tree was a sacred totara until 1876 when it was replaced by a pine which has now been felled.
www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?type=10&entryID=8467   (261 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Maungakiekie, One Tree Hill Photo
Maungakiekie (Mung-ga-kee-kee)/ One Tree Hill is one of the largest in the field and relatively recent.
The detail of the tree is magnificent, gives him a bit of life to the set.
The road, hill, tree and the monument are very well composed here and the picture looks very professional.
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Oceania/New_Zealand/photo347539.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Cornwall Park & One Tree Hill- Auckland, New Zealand - VirtualTourist.com
It gives an insight into how some of the early settlers of New Zealand used to live, and the tourist information office opposite has a leaflet telling more about the history of the cottage, explaining how it was built and when alterations were made.
In 1994 the tree was attacked with a chain saw by a Maori activist but survived, unfortunately in 1999 when it was attacked again by vandals, it was decided that the tree would not survive and had to come down.
Cornwall Park, on One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie), is one of the largest landscaped parks in Auckland.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Australia_and_Oceania/New_Zealand/North_Island/Auckland_Region/Auckland-1884091/Things_To_Do-Auckland-Cornwall_Park_One_Tree_Hill-BR-1.html   (1024 words)

  
 One Tree Hill News :: News Archives - Page 5
It is one of those days where there is no news about the show but there is news about the real OTH.
For those in New Zealand, OTH returns Sunday March 6 at 2.00pm with series 2.
New York Post have become the latest to write an article on The Starlet mentioning OTH, check it out here.
www.onetreehillnews.info /news-5.php   (724 words)

  
 U2MoL - The Joshua Tree - One Tree Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
U2MoL - The Joshua Tree - One Tree Hill
Greg was a Maori (native of New Zealand) and One Tree Hill, a hill in Auckland, NZ, was of special cultural significance to him.
The song is named after the highest volcanic hill in Auckland and was dedicated to Greg Carroll, who had become Bono's personal assistant after the September 1984 concerts in Auckland.
hem.bredband.net /steverud/U2MoL/JTree/treehill.html   (924 words)

  
 One Tree Hill
While the US and Canada received a unique single, In God's Country, New Zealand and Australia received their own unique single a few months later, One Tree Hill, a song which was written about a location in New Zealand.
One Tree Hill was only released as a 7" single.
A New Zealand television station (TVNZ) did compile some footage of U2 with scenes from One Tree Hill.
digilander.libero.it /u2beautifulday/Discografia/Singles/1979-1990/one_tree_hill.htm   (118 words)

  
 One Tree Hill
At that time the band was enjoying huge success from the live album, "Under a Blood Red Sky." This was more recently followed up by another big seller, "The Unforgettable Fire." Two Irishmen on yesterday's flight were rumoured to have been linked with the band, but they were reluctant to speak to the media yesterday.
Times were hard for fledgling bands in Anck- land and New Entrants found themselves living in a shabby flat in a crummy neighbourhood.
We knew it was pretty good." New Entrants' first re- cording"The Kids are Crying", appeared on a compilation album, then - after a change of name to Blond Comedy - they put out a 12" EP including that track and three others.
www.geocities.com /dagsyfm/u2/onetreehill.html   (2915 words)

  
 { the music of ONE TREE HILL } .. the official guide ..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Here you can find all the songs (not including score music) in every season/episode, including the scene in which they are played, and a brief description of the episode.
At first glance, it may seem as if the residents of the picturesque Tree Hill have it made.
Like the roots of an ancient tree, the destinies of these five are deeply twisted and tangled by betrayal, passion and secrecy.
music.onetreehillweb.net /episodes.html   (343 words)

  
 Rochester's WB16 : Primetime : One Tree Hill (HD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
NEW LOVE GETS HOTTER THAN EVER - A violent rainstorm knocks out the power in Tree Hill, leading Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz) to Nathan’s (James Lafferty) doorstep and Brooke (Sophia Bush) out into the downpour for a dramatic confrontation with Lucas (Chad Michael Murray).
While the teenagers struggled to find their places in the world, the adults in Tree Hill were left to deal with the residue of decisions they made years ago.
The answer throws Peyton into a tailspin as the one thing she's always had – the grief and certainty that her mother is gone – is compromised.
www.wb16.com /shows.php/show,10.html   (1198 words)

  
 { the music of ONE TREE HILL } .. your complete guide ..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Brooke's smug new neighbor quickly makes his presence felt among the Tree Hill gang, and even comes to Brooke's rescue when she is arrested for shoplifting.
Although Lucas takes Anna as his date to the Tree Hill High Formal, he finds himself with Brooke at the end of the night.
When Tree Hill High does a time capsule project, the gang confesses their most intimate secrets to an anonymous video camera.
music.onetreehillweb.net /season02.html   (1560 words)

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