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Educational Site Attractions In South Pacific

  • 1. Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium Townsville
    Reef HQ is the largest living coral reef aquarium. It is located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The aquarium was built as a Bicentennial Commemorative project and is a part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority . The Coral Reef Exhibit has 130 coral species and 120 fish species along with hundreds of species of sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, feather stars, snails, worms and sponges.
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  • 2. 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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  • 3. National Wine Centre of Australia Adelaide
    The National Wine Centre of Australia is a public exhibition building about winemaking and its industry in South Australia, opened in 2001. It contains an interactive permanent exhibition of winemaking, introducing visitors to the technology, varieties and styles of wine. It also has a wine tasting area, giving visitors the opportunity to taste and compare wines from different areas of Australia. The Wine Centre is situated at the eastern end of North Terrace, Adelaide in the east parklands and adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The building designed by Cox Grieve Gillett uses building materials to reflect items used in making wine. The exterior of the building looks like a section of a wine barrel. Outside the building are rows of grapevines, showing seven different varieties of gr...
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  • 4. Salamanca Arts Centre Hobart
    Salamanca Market is a street market in Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Salamanca Market is Tasmania's most visited tourist attractions and has won many awards for excellence. Located in historic Salamanca Place, next to the Hobart waterfront, the market has over 300 stallholders, and operates every Saturday between 8.30 am to 3.00 pm. Tasmania's biggest selection of locally made products can be explored including hand-worked glass, Tasmanian timbers, stylish clothing, bespoke jewellery, organic produce, artworks, bath and body care, ceramics, leather goods, handcrafted cheeses, breads, wines and spirits, and delicious hot foods. It is proudly owned and operated by the City of Hobart.
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  • 9. Railway Carriage Shed Newcastle
    The Honeysuckle Point Railway Workshops are a heritage-listed former railway workshops site at Newcastle, City of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Whitton and built from 1874 to 1886. It is also known as Honeysuckle Railway Workshops and Civic Railway Workshops. It now houses the Newcastle Museum. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
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  • 13. 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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  • 14. Somerville House Brisbane
    Somerville House is an independent, boarding and day school for girls, located in South Brisbane, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1899 as the Brisbane High School for Girls, the School was eventually named after the Scottish scientific writer, Mary Somerville , though the school's official name is still Brisbane High School for Girls. Today, Somerville House is owned by the Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association , and provides classes from Preparatory to Year 12, within three sub-schools — Junior , Middle , and Senior . The school currently caters for approximately 1,200 students from Prep to Year 12, including 97 boarders from Years 7 to 12.Somerville House is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia , t...
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