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The Best Attractions In Paekakariki

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Paekakariki , prior to 1905 also known as Paikakariki, is a town in the Kapiti Coast District in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It is 22 km north of Porirua and 45 km northeast of Wellington, the nation's capital city. The town's name in Māori means kākāriki perch. Paekakariki's population was 1,665 in the 2013 census, up from 1,602 at the 2006 New Zealand census.Paekakariki lies on a narrowing of the thin coastal plain between the Tasman Sea and the Akatarawa Ranges and was an important transportation node. To the south, State Highway 1 climbs towards Porirua; to the north the plains extend inland from the Kapiti Coast; at Paekakari...
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  • 1. Paekakariki Escarpment Walkway Paekakariki
    Pukerua Bay is a small seaside community at the southern end of the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand. In local government terms it is the northernmost suburb of Porirua City. It is 12 km north of the Porirua City Centre on State Highway 1 , and 30 km north of central Wellington. In Māori, the words puke rua literally mean two hills but it is not clear to which hills the name refers. The community's population was 1,722 people in 2006, and there were 89 businesses.
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  • 2. Steam Incorporated Paekakariki
    Steam Incorporated, often abbreviated to Steam Inc., is a railway heritage and preservation society based at the Paekakariki Railway Station, Paekakariki at the southern end of the Kapiti Coast, approximately 50 minutes north of Wellington on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Unlike some societies who operate on preserved sections of closed branch lines , Steam Incorporated own a depot beside one of the country's most important railway lines, the North Island Main Trunk Railway, and restores heritage locomotives and rolling stock for use on excursions on the regular national rail network.
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  • 3. Kapiti Coast Electric Tramway Paekakariki
    The Kapiti Coast is the name of the section of the coast of the south-western North Island of New Zealand that is north of Wellington and opposite Kapiti Island. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Wellington Regional Council.
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  • 4. Paekakariki Station Museum Paekakariki
    Paekakariki , prior to 1905 also known as Paikakariki, is a town in the Kapiti Coast District in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It is 22 km north of Porirua and 45 km northeast of Wellington, the nation's capital city. The town's name in Māori means kākāriki perch. Paekakariki's population was 1,665 in the 2013 census, up from 1,602 at the 2006 New Zealand census.Paekakariki lies on a narrowing of the thin coastal plain between the Tasman Sea and the Akatarawa Ranges and was an important transportation node. To the south, State Highway 1 climbs towards Porirua; to the north the plains extend inland from the Kapiti Coast; at Paekakariki the highway and North Island Main Trunk railway run close together between the coast and hills.
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  • 6. Southward Car Museum Paraparaumu
    The Southward Car Museum is an automobile museum housing a collection of over 400 vehicles, as well as three aircraft, located on Otaihanga Road, Otaihanga, just north of Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island. The museum is run by a charitable trust, incorporated in 1972. It is approximately an hour's drive from downtown Wellington and is situated between the North Island Main Trunk railway to the west and State Highway 1 to the east. The museum's collection includes Marlene Dietrich's Cadillac cabriolet, a 1915 Stutz Indianapolis race car, gull-winged Mercedes-Benz, a 1950 Cadillac gangster special that belonged to gangster Mickey Cohen, and an 1895 Benz Velo, imported to New Zealand in 1900. A DeLorean DMC-12, the car best known from the Back to the Future movie s...
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  • 7. Stonehenge Aotearoa Carterton
    Stonehenge Aotearoa, built by members of The Phoenix Astronomy Society near Carterton, New Zealand, is a modern adaptation of the Stonehenge ruins on the Salisbury Plain of England. The henge, built over 2 years and opened on 12 February 2005 by Nobel Laureate Professor Alan MacDiarmid, contains 24 pillars and is 30 metres in diameter and about 4 metres high. The pillars are capped with lintels, completing the circle, and a 5 metres -tall obelisk marks the center of the henge. The modern henge was designed to demonstrate how ancient peoples used such constructions to understand astronomy. Since Stonehenge Aotearoa is at a different latitude and longitude than the original Stonehenge, it is not an exact replica—some measurements had to be changed to preserve certain astronomical propertie...
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  • 11. Paraparaumu Beach Paraparaumu
    Paraparaumu is a town in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Kapiti Coast, 55 kilometres north of the nation's capital city, Wellington. Like other towns in the area, it has a partner settlement at the coast called Paraparaumu Beach, which lies directly opposite Kapiti Island. The two towns form part of the Kapiti Coast District. Together with the nearby Raumati and Raumati South they are among the fastest-growing urban areas in New Zealand, and are major dormitory towns with workers commuting to the cities that make up the Wellington urban area. The four towns between them have a 2012 population of over 49,000 people. Inland behind Paraparaumu is the Maungakotukutuku area. Paraparaumu means scraps from an earth oven in Māori: parapara means dirt or scraps and um...
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