Ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company

McLean, Gavin

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Shipwrecks around New Zealand

Grantham House

100 historic places in New Zealand

Hodder Moa Beckett

Built on mid-Victorian gold and located in a wonderful natural environment, Dunedin is a gracious old lady with a spirit of adventure. Dunedin: History, Heritage and Ecotourism by historian Gavin McLean offers a guide to the city and its immediate environment. McLean gives a potted history and describes walks and trips that can be taken by visitors and residents alike. There are three inner-city walks (including the famed university campus area), trips to local highlights (St Clair Beach, Cargill's Castle, Tunnel Beach, factory tours, Woodhaugh Gardens, Ross Creek, the steepest street in the world, and Mount Cargill), and excursions down harbor to Port Chalmers and on to the Peninsula (and of course Larnach Castle). This book is an attractive souvenir is an accessible, easy-to-read book is part of the popular Local Guide series published by University of Otago Press. Other titles explore Arrowtown, the Catlins, Stewart Island, Oamaru and Wanaka.

Dunedin: History, Heritage & Wildlife

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Australia & Oceania

Otago University Press

Wellington is a great place for a holiday, whether for a weekend or two weeks. The city has energy, as the home of many of New Zealand's cultural institutions, and a wonderful location on high hills around a dramatic harbour. In this guide to Wellington and its immediate environment, Gavin McLean gives a potted history and describes walks and trips that can be taken by visitors, many by public transport. There are four inner-city walks (including the cable car and botanical gardens, parliament, Lambton Quay and party places), trips to local highlights (the waterfront, south coast drive, Matiu/Somes Island, eastern bays), and visits to museums, galleries and historic places, as well as natural reserves such as the Karori Sanctuary. It's all here for a great holiday.

Wellington: History, Heritage & Culture

<p><div>"Colonial New Zealand depended on sea transport. Every major or aspiring centre had to have a port. At different times, and with different casts of characters, similar stories were acted out throughout New Zealand. You can tick them off - from siting and building the port right through to our modern worries about balancing the competing demands of conservation and development, and of commercial, recreational and residential users." Located on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, Oamaru harbor struggled to become a safe haven. Yet it became an example of the "progress industry" that reshaped the country's destiny in the pivotal 1860s and 1870s, an archetypal rural servicing town, manufacturing center and port. Today viticulture, dairy farms and farm stays characterize its region but the tides still roll in and out of the harbor, which in turn has become a heritage center, recreation space and tourist venue.</div></p>

Kiwitown's Port: The Story of Oamaru Harbour

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