'Siberia' - Site of Fatal Rail Accident

The only fatal accident on the Rimutaka Incline happened here in 1880, when a passenger carriage was blown off the track in a gust of wind. Four children died,and several adults were injured.

CYCLE TOUR - END OF THE ROAD, FOR NOW

December 16th 2009
The Former Mike Brockie Arrives in Wellington You stood in the newsroom like a messenger from a sunnier land. Between a climb on a gravel road in the King Country and a tail-wind out of Lower Hutt you’d pedalled away a few decades of worry. All you carried - the sun lightly on your back, a mind clean and clear as a back-country moon. You were a modern who’d made the epic jou ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Wellington Region » Wellington

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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