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Government Building Attractions In North Island

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The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island's area is 113,729 square kilometres , making it the world's 14th-largest island. It has a population of 3,749,200 .Twelve main urban areas are in the North Island. From north to south, they are Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, and Wellington, the capital, located at the south-west extremity of the island. About 77% of New Zealand's population lives in the North Island.
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  • 1. Government House Wellington
    Government House, Wellington is the official residence of the Governor-General of New Zealand, the representative of the New Zealand head of state, Queen Elizabeth II. Dame Patsy Reddy, who has been Governor General since September 2016, currently resides there with her spouse. The present building, the third Government House in the city, was completed in 1910.
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  • 2. Parliament Buildings Wellington
    The New Zealand Parliament Buildings house the New Zealand Parliament and are on a 45,000 square metre site at the northern end of Lambton Quay, Wellington. They consist of the Edwardian neoclassical-style Parliament House ; the Parliamentary Library ; the executive wing, called The Beehive ; and Bowen House, in use since 1991. Whilst most of the individual buildings are outstanding for different reasons, the overall setting that has been achieved has little aesthetic or architectural coherence.
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  • 3. Premier House Wellington
    Premier House is the official residence of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, located at 260 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand. A private house purchased for the Prime Minister's official residence when government shifted its base to Wellington in 1865, it was first greatly expanded and then, as its wooden structure deteriorated, shunned by the more modest political leaders on learning the cost of repairs. It was leased to private individuals for six years in the late 1890s then returned to use as an official residence for the Prime Minister until the Great Depression when a new government in 1935 wished to avoid show. For more than half a century generations of children came to know the building as their dental clinic until it was renovated and recommissioned as Premier Hou...
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  • 4. National Archives Wellington
    The National Library of New Zealand is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations . Under the Act, the library is also expected to be: collecting, preserving, and protecting documents, particularly those relating to New Zealand, and making them accessible for all the people of New Zealand, in a manner consistent with their status as documentary heritage and taonga; and supplementing and furthering the work of other libraries in New Zealand; and working collaboratively with other institutions having similar purposes, including those forming part of the international library community.The library supports schools through its Services to Schools business unit, which has curricu...
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  • 5. Old Government Buildings Wellington
    The Government Buildings Historic Reserve, or more commonly referred to as the Old Government Buildings, is situated on Lambton Quay in Wellington. It was completed in 1876, and until 1998 was the second-largest wooden building in the world .It was built to house New Zealand's civil service, and now houses the Victoria University of Wellington's Law School. The building, is classified as a Category I historic place by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, previously known as the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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  • 6. The Supreme Court of New Zealand Wellington
    New Zealand is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island , and the South Island —and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its m...
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