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Wakefield, New Zealand

Index Wakefield, New Zealand

The small New Zealand community of Wakefield is situated some 25 km south west of Nelson at the top of the South Island. [1]

11 relations: Arthur Wakefield, Edward Baigent, Heritage New Zealand, Nelson, New Zealand, Richmond, New Zealand, South Island, Tasman District, Wairau Affray, Wakefield, West Coast-Tasman, Yorkshire.

Arthur Wakefield

Captain Arthur Wakefield (19 November 1799 – 17 June 1843) served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand.

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Edward Baigent

Edward Baigent (22 June 1813 – 9 November 1892) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from Nelson, New Zealand.

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Heritage New Zealand

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, (previously until 2014 named the New Zealand Historic Places Trust) (Pouhere Taonga), is a Crown entity with a membership of around 20,000 people that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand.

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Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson (Whakatū) is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay.

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Richmond, New Zealand

Richmond is a town, and the seat of the Tasman District Council, that lies south of Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand, close to the southern extremity of Tasman Bay.

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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Tasman District

Tasman District is a local government district in the north of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Wairau Affray

The Wairau Affray (called the Wairau Massacre in many older texts), on 17 June 1843, was the first serious clash of arms between Māori and the British settlers in New Zealand after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the only one to take place on the South Island.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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West Coast-Tasman

2008 West Coast-Tasman is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield,_New_Zealand

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