Achilles Point Auckland New Zealand
Achilles Point Mission Bay Auckland New Zealand
Achilles Point is a rocky point on the headland at the eastern end of the small sandy beach named Ladies Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. The name 'Te Pane o Horoiwi' can also sometimes refer to the whole headland between St Heliers and Tamaki River estuary.
Achilles Point or, Te Pane o Horoiwi meaning 'The head of Horoiwi' is a scenic lookout point found along Cliff Road, a few minutes drive from Mission Bay and just past St Heliers Bay.
Achilles Point takes its name from the HMNZS Achilles ship which in 1939 defeated the German battleship, Admiral Graf Spee.
Enjoying a headland location, Achilles Point provides a viewing platform with fantastic views of the Hauraki Gulf, Brown's Island, Rangitoto Island and distant view of Auckland City.
Achilles Point Auckland
Achilles Point Harbour Views
Auckland. Tamaki Drive.
A ride along Tamaki Drive in Auckland, New Zealand with a few stops along the way to look at some steam loco's, our coastguard, watch some kites flying and an old sewer pipe of all things.
While most of my YouTube friends are making shorter and shorter videos, I just couldn't stop waffling on, so this one may well be the longest one I've made so far !!
Protecting our land
A tour of Achilles Point and an overview of St Heliers. Graham describes the significance of Achilles Point and recalls his own memories of the famous battle in WWII.
Seawall
Achilles point at auckland
NZ 4WD Track: Ahipara to Herekino, Through the Erehwon
Part 2 of my epic adventure to the North. This time round we tackle the Erehwon for some wheel lifting action! Make sure you check out part 1 for the full story and hang around for part 3!?.... seemed a filmed alot.
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SH5882 71C St Heliers Bay Road
Another great property marketed by David Nightingale of Harcourts St Heliers, Auckland New Zealannd
Future proofing the New Zealand Economy - Complete video
NZO Crew Head South
Heres the run down on our recent trip over to South Island for Round 2 of Mainland winch challenge plus some awesome adventuring.
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Fran Wilde interview for 30th Anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand
Former Wellington Central Labour MP, Fran Wilde, talks about submitted the Homosexual Law Reform Bill in New Zealand Parliament in 1985, the atmosphere around the country at that time, and the campaigns the ran for and against the contentious bill. Immersed in black and white archival photography provided by David Hindley, interviews of the day from the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand (LAGANZ) and RadioNZ, Fran explains her determination to get the bill passed and just how important it was back then and for New Zealand as a society today.
Military history of New Zealand during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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Military history of New Zealand during World War II
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The military history of New Zealand during World War II began when New Zealand entered the Second World War by declaring war on Nazi Germany with Great Britain. The state of war with Germany was officially held to have existed since 9:30 pm on 3 September 1939 (local time), simultaneous with that of Britain, but in fact the declaration of war was not made until confirmation had been received from Britain that their ultimatum to Germany had expired. The group (led by Peter Fraser as Prime Minister Michael Savage was terminally ill) listened to the shortwave radio in Carl Berendsen's room in Parliament Buildings but were not certain what Neville Chamberlain had said because of static on the short-wave radio, and a coded telegraph message from London did not arrive until just before midnight as the messenger boy with the telegram in London took shelter because of a (false) air-raid warning. The Cabinet acted after hearing the Admiralty's notification to the fleet that war had broken out. The next day Cabinet approved nearly 30 war regulations as laid down in the War Book, and after completing the formalities with the Executive Council the Governor-General, Lord Galway, issued the Proclamation of War, backdated to 9.30 pm on 3 September.Diplomatically, New Zealand had expressed vocal opposition to fascism in Europe and also to the appeasement of Fascist dictatorships, and national sentiment for a strong show of force met with general support. Economic and defensive considerations also motivated the New Zealand involvement—reliance on Britain meant that threats to Britain became threats to New Zealand too in terms of economic and defensive ties.
There was also a strong sentimental link between the former British colony and the United Kingdom, with many seeing Britain as the mother country or Home. The New Zealand Prime Minister of the time Michael Joseph Savage summed this up at the outbreak of war with a broadcast on 5 September (largely written by the Solicitor-General Henry Cornish) that became a popular cry in New Zealand during the war:
It is with gratitude in the past, and with confidence in the future, that we range ourselves without fear beside Britain, where she goes, we go! Where she stands, we stand!
New Zealand provided personnel for service in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and in the Royal Navy and was prepared to have New Zealanders serving under British command. Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) pilots, many trained in the Empire Air Training Scheme, were sent to Europe. But unlike the other Dominions, New Zealand did not insist on its aircrews serving with RNZAF squadrons, so speeding up the rate at which they entered service. And the Long Range Desert Group was formed in North Africa in 1940 with New Zealand and Rhodesian as well as British volunteers, but included no Australians for the same reason.
The New Zealand government placed the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy at the Admiralty's disposal and made available to the RAF 30 new Wellington medium bombers waiting in the United Kingdom for shipping to New Zealand. The New Zealand Army contributed the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF).
Daniel Pauly: Oceans & Fisheries
Professor Daniel Pauly discusses the growth, expansion and decline of fisheries, and the local and global impacts from humans.
Recorded in Auckland on 21 May 2019 using Zoom video-conferencing software.
Timeline of New Zealand history | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of New Zealand history
00:00:12 1 Prehistory (to 1000 CE)
00:01:16 2 Pre-colonial time (1000 to 1839)
00:01:28 2.1 1000 to 1600
00:02:32 2.2 17th century
00:03:31 2.3 18th century
00:05:40 2.4 Early 19th century; 1801–1839
00:10:27 3 Colony and self-government (1840 to 1946)
00:10:39 3.1 1840s
00:13:19 3.2 1850s
00:15:05 3.3 1860s
00:18:20 3.4 1870s
00:20:33 3.5 1880s
00:22:59 3.6 1890s
00:25:23 3.7 1900s
00:27:51 3.8 1910s
00:30:46 3.9 1920s
00:32:32 3.10 1930s
00:35:29 3.11 1940 to 1946
00:39:21 4 Full independence (1947 to 1983)
00:39:33 4.1 1947 to 1949
00:40:57 4.2 1950s
00:43:36 4.3 1960s
00:46:16 4.4 1970s
00:50:07 4.5 1980s
00:51:08 5 Restructuring (1984 to date)
00:51:19 5.1 1984 to 1989
00:55:18 5.2 1990s
01:00:56 5.3 2000s
01:04:35 5.4 2010s
01:07:14 6 See also
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This is a timeline of the history of New Zealand that includes only events deemed to be of principal importance – for less important events click the year heading or refer to List of years in New Zealand.
Innovations in Response & Recovery (panel session) MCDEM Conference 2016
Day 1 - Session 4: Innovations in Response & Recovery
Speakers and topics:
Common Alerting Protocol, Graham Leonard, GNS Science
CJESP's State-of-the-Art EOC, James Thompson, Canterbury CDEM Group
Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Systems for Surveillance and Rapid Impact Assessment, Ken Cooper, New Zealand Fire Service
Controller's Development Programme, Jon Mitchell, Massey University
Velvetleaf - A National Biosecurity Response, Angus McKay, Emergency Management Southland and David Yard, Ministry for Primary Industries
Canterbury Earthquakes Learning Legacy Project, Elizabeth McNaughton, DPMC
Innovations in Local Recovery Management Brendan Morris, Brendan Morris Consulting
Please note:
Correction approx. 26.55 - Charles Hatchwell is the Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager of The New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS).
Correction approx. 30.56 - 439 stations.
Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management - National Conference 2016: The Future of Emergency Management.
ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 2019- UAE vs SCOTLAND
LIVE Streaming of One Day International Cricket of UAE vs SCOTLAND in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 as part of the 'Road to India' to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 from ICC Academy Cricket Ground. The live production has three cameras, cricket commentary and CricClubs live graphics broadcasting the whole match FREE worldwide.
Viewers will see all the action LIVE on the Emirates Cricket Board's official YouTube channel.
Nicholas Christakis on the Evolutionary Origins of Ethics, Morality, and a Good Society
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In Episode 82 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Nicholas Christakis about the evolutionary origins of ethics, morality, and a good society.
A renowned sociologist and physician, Dr. Christakis was named to Time Magazine’s 2009 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science, as well as the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University.
Listeners to this show will recall our prior episode with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, where we discussed a 2015 incident at Yale, involving Dr. Christakis, who was accosted and berated by a horde of belligerent students for approximately two hours over the contents of an email sent by his wife, an esteemed childhood educator, in what was one of the earliest examples of a bizarre phenomenon of public shaming and moral outrage that has overtaken college campuses in recent years.
Though Demetri and Nicholas do discuss that experience, as well as this larger move to moderate or in some cases, shut down speech entirely, the episode focuses on the professor’s book, which is an exploration of the evolutionary origins of a good society. Their conversation explores the biological foundations of culture-making and the features that define the social landscape that we have evolved to create. Dr. Christakis highlights some of the profound similarities that can be seen, not just cross-culturally, but across time and space. He shares research into what is known about some of the earliest groups of hunter-gatherers, impromptu societies formed by the survivors of shipwrecks, as well as the deliberately constructed communes of 19th-century transcendentalists.
Nicholas Christakis also explains the biological origins of romantic love, examines polyamorous cultures like those of the Na people of the Himalayas, and compares human societies with those of chimpanzees, elephants, and whales.
This is an episode full of fascinating stories, statistics, and scientific research that weave together insights from the fields of evolutionary psychology, moral philosophy, and genetics. It is a conversation that cuts right to the heart of society’s resurgent interest in human origins, social norms, and moral values.
Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas
Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou
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