Porirua 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. It almost completely surrounds Porirua Harbour at the southern end of the Kapiti Coast. Pauatahanui Inlet, the eastern inlet of the harbour, is notable for its world-class estuarine values.
Population: 50,914
Latitude: -41° 07' 59.99" S
Longitude: 174° 50' 60.00" E
Muri Railway Station was on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, part of the suburban rail network of Wellington. It was double tracked with side platforms on a straight section between two curves, 31.2 km from Wel…
The Michael Fowler Centre is a concert hall and convention centre in Wellington, New Zealand.
Whitby, a large suburb of Porirua City, New Zealand, located along much of the southern shore of the Pauatahanui Inlet of Porirua Harbour was comprehensively planned in the 1960s (when still in Hutt County) and it has been continuously developed sin…
Wellington East Girls' College is on the lower slopes of Mount Victoria. It was built on reserve land bordering Wellington College in 1925, to cope with the demand for female education in Wellington at the time.
The Latin Rite Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington is the Metropolitan Archdiocese of New Zealand. Catholics number about 83,214 (2006 census).
The suburb of Plimmerton lies in the northwest part of the city of Porirua in New Zealand, adjacent to some of the city's more congenial beaches.
Newlands is one of the northern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies approximately 8km north of the city centre and to the east of its nearest neighbour Johnsonville. It has a long history of early settlement and originally was farmed includi…
The Museum of Wellington City & Sea is a museum on Queens Wharf in Wellington, New Zealand. It occupies the 1892 Bond Store, an historic building on Jervois Quay on the waterfront of Wellington Harbour.
The Ministry of Defence (Māori: Manatū Kaupapa Waonga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on defence policy, as well as overseeing the New Zealand Defence Force.
The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management is New Zealand's central government agency responsible for emergency management.
The Hutt Railway Workshops is a major railway engineering facility in the Lower Hutt suburb of Gracefield in the Wellington region of New Zealand's North Island. It is state-owned enterprise KiwiRail's only workshops, and was opened in 1930.
Hutt International Boys' School (usually known by its acronym, HIBS) is a state integrated boys' secondary school in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.
Houghton Bay and Valley is one of the southern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand.
Haywards is a small hillside suburb in the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand. It is notable for its large electrical substation, which is the main switching point for the Wellington region, and the home of the North Island converter station f…
Hataitai is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, 3.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre. The suburb extends over the southeastern flank of Mount Victoria and down a valley between the Town Belt and a ridge along the s…
The City Gallery Wellington (Māori: Te Whare Toi) is an art gallery in Wellington, New Zealand.
Cardinal McKeefry is a Catholic primary school and intermediate school for girls and boys catering from Year 1 to Year 8 (5 to 13 years old).
The State Insurance Building is a skyscraper at 1 Willis Street in Wellington, New Zealand, formerly named the BNZ Centre. At the time of its completion in 1984, it was the tallest building in New Zealand, overtaking the 87m Quay Tower in Auckland. …