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    Akaroa is a small town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The...
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  • Akaroa is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Break O'Day in the North-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 13 kilometres...
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  • Akaroa County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island. The council first met in Akaroa court house on 4 January 1877. In 1880 new offices...
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    composite shield volcanoes[clarification needed] (Lyttelton formed first, then Akaroa), and the smaller Mt Herbert Volcanic Group. These formed due to intraplate...
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    Akaroa Harbour is part of Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The harbour enters from the southern coast of the peninsula, heading...
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    SS Akaroa was a UK steam ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship. She was launched in 1914 in Ireland as Euripides for Aberdeen Line. When new, she was...
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    main eruptive centres one originating at Lyttelton Harbour, the other at Akaroa Harbour. The eruptions were predominantly basaltic, with associated andesite...
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  • Akaroa was a Norwegian sailing ship that was torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-19 in the English Channel, 70 miles west off the Casquets, Guernsey...
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    The Akaroa Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of 512.15 hectares (1,265.6 acres) at the entrance to the Akaroa Harbour in New Zealand...
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    January 2011 – via TeAra.govt.nz. Foster, Bernard John (April 2009) [1966]. "Akaroa, French Settlement At". In McLintock, Alexander Hare (ed.). An Encyclopaedia...
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  • Onawe peninsula, in Akaroa Harbour. Construction of this pā, which was defended by about 400 men, was begun by the Māori of Akaroa and the surrounding...
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    and Canon The Archdeaconry of Akaroa dates back to at latest 1855, when Octavius Mathias was collated. Archdeacons of Akaroa 1909–1910 (res.): Alfred Averill...
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  • 1863 Akaroa by-election was a by-election held on 30 October 1863 during the 3rd New Zealand Parliament in the Canterbury electorate of Akaroa. The by-election...
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  • Akaroa was a New Zealand electorate. It was located in Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, and named after the town of the same name. One of the original 24 electorates...
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  • Following the resignation of Robert Heaton Rhodes from his Akaroa seat in the New Zealand parliament, William Montgomery contested the 20 April 1874 by-election...
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    Stewart of the brig Elizabeth to carry him and his warriors in secret to Akaroa, whereby in subterfuge they captured the leading Kāi Tahu chief, Tama-i-hara-nui...
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    equilibrium. The Null-point hypothesis has been quantitatively proven in Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand, The Wash, U.K., Bohai Bay and West Huang Sera, Mainland...
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    Louis Philippe I Coat of arms of Louis Philippe I Port Louis Philippe (Akaroa), the oldest French colony in the South Pacific and the oldest town in the...
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  • Tongarewa, the Canterbury Museum, the Christchurch Art Gallery and the Akaroa Museum. Menzies was born in England in 1839. He emigrated to New Zealand...
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    and Kettle sailed to Akaroa Harbour where they called a meeting of Māori chiefs. After just three days of negotiations at Akaroa, 16 or 40 chiefs (sources...
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    in New Zealand. He represented the Akaroa electorate from 1887 to 1890 when he was defeated. He was a mayor of Akaroa. His only daughter, Annie, married...
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    term for a fishing village, kainga in standard Māori), near Palmerston and Akaroa, and the early spelling of Lake Wakatipu as Wagadib. In standard Māori,...
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  • (1805 – 6 December 1864) was a New Zealand politician. He represented the Akaroa electorate in the 2nd New Zealand Parliament from 1855 to 1858, but resigned...
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    Rhodes (1815 – 1 June 1884) was a New Zealand politician who represented the Akaroa electorate from 1871 to 1874, when he resigned. He was elected unopposed...
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    the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island. Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first...
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    code Ahaura AU 027 23 Ahipara APA Connect via operator Ahititi AHI 067 25 Akaroa AO Connect via operator Albury ABY 0505 5 Alexandra AL 0294 Alfredton ALF...
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  • that of the full-power FM stations. The following stations broadcast in Akaroa or the Banks Peninsula area. The following stations broadcast in the Ashburton...
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    6.2 miles VI. Strong 24 December 2011 6:37 am 5.1 4.9 5.1 10 km east of Akaroa 9 km 5.5 miles VI. Strong 2 January 2012 1:27 am 5.1 4.8 4.9 20 km north-east...
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    Lebanon Jabal al-Druze Sanjak of Alexandretta Oceania New Hebrides Vanuatu Port Louis-Philippe (Akaroa) France–Asia relations French East India Company...
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    members are elected from 4 subdivisions within the Banks Peninsula Ward (Akaroa, Mount Herbert, Lyttelton, Wairewa) alongside the Ward Councillor. District...
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