It shows Auckland’s character via facts and figures – for example, the fact that 36 percent of New Zealand’s population, and 64 percent of the country’s total Pacific population, lives in Auckland. It also shows 40 percent of Tāmaki Makaurau residents were born overseas, with the majority coming from northeast, southern, and central Asia, the Pacific Islands, and northeastern Europe.
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Living City: Rarau mai is just one part of the Auckland War Memorial’s wider exhibition, Tāmaki Herenga Waka: Stories of Auckland. Living City: Rarau mai sits in a hushed corner away from the hubbub of the main gallery space. It is a darkened room, kept alight purely by nuggets of information: Bright blips, graphs, names and numbers that beam from the floor and the floor-to-ceiling screens.
Caroline Bay has been a popular option for those wanting to cool off this week.
South Canterbury’s scorching hot weather is set be followed with more tepid temperatures, as a cold front enters on Thursday. The region has been bathed in climbing temperatures since Friday, hitting a peak of 37.5 degrees on Tuesday, but MetService forecaster Lewis Ferris warned of a noticeable drop approaching. “It’s likely to peak about 20 degrees Celsius in Timaru (on Thursday), but it’s going to feel much colder to that due to the cold front,” Ferris said. “People will definitely notice the drop. “From there, Friday is expected to be cloudy and 17 degrees, Saturday is forecast to have slight drizzly patches and 17 degrees, while Sunday will peak at 23 degrees and have some fresh north easterlies, and a ridge of high pressure will lead to a fine Monday with 23 degrees.”
Press Release – University of Auckland New Zealand waters provide an important migratory route for the biggest animal to ever exist, the Antarctic blue whale, according to a study led by a University of Auckland scientist. Hydrophones, or underwater microphones, anchored at the bottom …
New Zealand waters provide an important migratory route for the biggest animal to ever exist, the Antarctic blue whale, according to a study led by a University of Auckland scientist.
Hydrophones, or underwater microphones, anchored at the bottom of the ocean around central New Zealand recorded the whales’ low-frequency calls, which are loud enough to be heard across hundreds of kilometers, to monitor their locations.
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