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Wairarapa

Index Wairarapa

2008 Wairarapa is a geographical region of New Zealand. [1]

73 relations: Alan MacDiarmid, Arthur Prior, Balliol College, Oxford, Bob Charles (golfer), Brian Lochore, Carterton, New Zealand, Cook Strait, Dannevirke, Deer, DNA, Eketahuna, Featherston, New Zealand, Flight of the Conchords, Fly My Pretties, Geoffrey Fisken, Georgina Beyer, Grant Batty, Greytown, New Zealand, Hawke's Bay Region, Iwi, Jemaine Clement, Jesse Ryder, Keith Holyoake, Ladyhawke (musician), Lake Wairarapa, Lower Hutt, Manawatu Gorge, Manawatu River, Manawatu-Wanganui, Marcus Daniell, Martinborough, Masterton, Maurice Wilkins, Māori people, Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre, Murray Halberg, New Zealand, New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, New Zealand wine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Nobel Prize, Norsewood, North Island, Pahiatua, Palliser Bay, Palmerston North, Palmerston North–Gisborne Line, Pongaroa, Prime Minister of New Zealand, Rangitāne, ..., Raybon Kan, Regions of New Zealand, Richter magnitude scale, Rimutaka Range, Rimutaka Tunnel, Ross Taylor, Ruahine Range, Tararua District, Tararua Range, Temporal logic, The Black Seeds, Tinui, Tranz Metro, University of Manchester, Upper Hutt, Vincent Ward (director), Wairarapa Connection, Wairarapa Line, Wellington, Woodville, New Zealand, World Federation for Mental Health, Zac Guildford, 1855 Wairarapa earthquake. Expand index (23 more) »

Alan MacDiarmid

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

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Arthur Prior

Arthur Norman Prior (4 December 1914 – 6 October 1969), usually cited as A. N. Prior, was a noted logician and philosopher.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Bob Charles (golfer)

Sir Robert James Charles (born 14 March 1936) is a New Zealand professional golfer.

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Brian Lochore

Sir Brian James Lochore (born 3 September 1940) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and coach who represented and captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.

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Carterton, New Zealand

Carterton (Taratahi) is a small town in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and the seat of the Carterton District (a territorial authority or local government district).

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Cook Strait

Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa) lies between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

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Dannevirke

Dannevirke (Danish: "Danes' work" and a reference to Danevirke) (Taniwaka), is a rural service town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of the North Island, New Zealand.

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Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

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Eketahuna

Eketahuna is a small rural service town, the most southerly in the Tararua District in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of the North Island of New Zealand, but is considered to be in northern Wairarapa.

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Featherston, New Zealand

Featherston (Maori: Kaiwaewae) is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island.

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Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of musicians Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.

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Fly My Pretties

Fly My Pretties is a collaboration of musicians originally from Wellington, New Zealand who are known for coming together to record live albums, in various locations in New Zealand.

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Geoffrey Fisken

Geoffrey Bryson Fisken, (17 February 1916 – 12 June 2011) was a New Zealand fighter pilot who was the British Commonwealth’s leading air ace in the Pacific theatre of World War II.

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Georgina Beyer

Georgina Beyer (born November 1957) is a New Zealand politician and former Labour Party Member of Parliament.

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Grant Batty

Grant Bernard Batty (born 31 August 1951 in Greytown, New Zealand) is a former rugby union footballer.

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Greytown, New Zealand

Greytown (Te Hupenui), population 2,202 (at the 2013 Census), is a rural town in the heart of the Wairarapa region of New Zealand, in the lower North Island.

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Hawke's Bay Region

Hawke's Bay Region (Te Matau-a-Māui) is a region of New Zealand on the east coast of the North Island.

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Iwi

Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.

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Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand singer, comedian, musician, actor, voice actor, director, and writer.

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Jesse Ryder

Jesse Daniel Ryder (born 6 August 1984) is an international New Zealand cricketer, who plays all forms of the game.

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Keith Holyoake

Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (11 February 1904 – 8 December 1983) was the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, serving for a brief period in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and also the 13th Governor-General of New Zealand, serving from 1977 to 1980.

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Ladyhawke (musician)

Phillipa Margaret "Pip" Brown (born 13 July 1979), better known by her stage name Ladyhawke, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Lake Wairarapa

Lake Wairarapa is a lake at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, 50 kilometers east of Wellington.

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Lower Hutt

Lower Hutt (Awakairangi) is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Manawatu Gorge

The Manawatu Gorge (in Māori Te Apiti, meaning "The Narrow Passage") runs for 6-9 km between the Ruahine and Tararua Ranges in the south part of the North Island of New Zealand, linking the Manawatu and Hawke's Bay regions.

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Manawatu River

The Manawatu River (Maori: "Manawatū") is a major river of the lower North Island of New Zealand.

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Manawatu-Wanganui

Manawatu-Wanganui is a region in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, whose main population centres are the cities of Palmerston North and Whanganui.

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Marcus Daniell

Marcus Daniell (born 9 November 1989) is a professional tennis player from rural Wairarapa in New Zealand.

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Martinborough

Martinborough (Wharekaka) is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington region of New Zealand.

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Masterton

Masterton (Whakaoriori) is a large town in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local government district).

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Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel laureate whose research contributed to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the development of radar.

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Māori people

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

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Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre

Pukaha Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre is a wildlife restoration centre at a protected forest area on State Highway 2 in New Zealand's Tararua district.

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Murray Halberg

Sir Murray Gordon Halberg (born 7 July 1933) is a New Zealand former middle distance runner who won the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 1960 Olympics.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal

The New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal was instituted by Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 9 February 1990.

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New Zealand wine

New Zealand wine is produced in several mostly maritime, cool climate wine growing regions of New Zealand, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Ngāti Kahungunu

Ngāti Kahungunu is a Māori iwi located along the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Norsewood

Norsewood is a small rural town in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand's North Island.

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North Island

The North Island (Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

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Pahiatua

Pahiatua is a rural service town in the south-eastern North Island of New Zealand with an urban and rural population of over 4,000.

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Palliser Bay

Palliser Bay is at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, to the southeast of Wellington.

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Palmerston North

Palmerston North (Te Papa-i-Oea) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatu-Wanganui region.

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Palmerston North–Gisborne Line

The Palmerston North–Gisborne Line (PNGL) is a secondary main line railway in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Pongaroa

Pongaroa is a town in the Tararua District, in the southeast of the North Island of New Zealand, 110 kilometres southwest of Hastings and 200 kilometres northeast of Wellington.

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Prime Minister of New Zealand

The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Te Pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.

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Rangitāne

For the ship see RMS Rangitane Rangitāne is a Māori iwi (tribe).

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Raybon Kan

Raybon Kan is a New Zealand comedian and newspaper columnist.

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Regions of New Zealand

New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes.

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Richter magnitude scale

The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".

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Rimutaka Range

The Remutaka Range (spelled Rimutaka Range before 2017), is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand that form a ridge running parallel with the east coast between East Cape and Wellington.

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Rimutaka Tunnel

The Rimutaka Tunnel (officially Tunnel 2, Wairarapa Line) is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Remutaka Range, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and Featherston, on the Wairarapa Line.

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Ross Taylor

Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor (born 8 March 1984) is a New Zealand cricketer, who has batted predominantly at number 4.

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Ruahine Range

The Ruahine Range is the largest of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand that form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington.

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Tararua District

The Tararua District is an area near the south-east corner of New Zealand's North Island that is administered by the Tararua District Council.

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Tararua Range

The Tararua Range, often referred to as the Tararua Ranges or the Tararuas, is one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Temporal logic

In logic, temporal logic is any system of rules and symbolism for representing, and reasoning about, propositions qualified in terms of time.

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The Black Seeds

The Black Seeds are a musical group rooted in reggae from Wellington, New Zealand.

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Tinui

Tinui is a small village approximately 40 kilometres from Masterton, in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.

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Tranz Metro

Tranz Metro (formerly CityRail and before that Cityline) was a New Zealand public transport operator.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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Upper Hutt

Upper Hutt (Māori: Orongomai) is a city in the Wellington Region of the North Island of New Zealand, and one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.

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Vincent Ward (director)

Vincent Ward, ONZM (born 16 February 1956) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and artist.

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Wairarapa Connection

The Wairarapa Connection is a New Zealand interurban commuter rail service along the Wairarapa Line between Masterton, the largest town in the Wairarapa, and Wellington.

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Wairarapa Line

The Wairarapa Line is a secondary railway line in the south-east of the North Island of New Zealand.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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Woodville, New Zealand

Woodville, previously known as The Junction is a small town in the southern North Island of New Zealand, 75 km north of Masterton and 25 km east of Palmerston North.

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World Federation for Mental Health

The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international, multi-professional non-governmental organization (NGO), including citizen volunteers and former patients.

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Zac Guildford

Zachary Robert Guildford (born 8 February 1989) is a New Zealand rugby union player of Maori descent who plays for Waikato in the Mitre 10 Cup.

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1855 Wairarapa earthquake

The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake occurred on 23 January at about 9 p.m., affecting much of the Cook Strait area of New Zealand, including Marlborough in the South Island and Wellington and Wairarapa in the North Island.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wairarapa

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