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Transportation Attractions In Wellington

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Wellington is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 418,500 residents. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region, which also includes the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate and is the world's windiest city, with an average wind speed of over 26 km/h .The Wellington urban area comprises four local authorities: Wellington City, on...
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Transportation Attractions In Wellington

  • 1. Interislander Wellington
    Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island. It is owned and operated by state-owned rail operator KiwiRail. Three roll-on roll-off vessels operate the 50 nautical miles route, taking between three and three-and-a-half hours to complete the crossing.Interislander was started in August 1962 by KiwiRail's predecessor, the New Zealand Railways Department . The service primarily provided a RORO rail link between its North and South Island networks, allowing NZR to compete directly with coastal shipping companies for inter-island freight. It also provided the first RORO road link between the two islands, which saw the Interislander compete with, and then completely replace, the Union Compa...
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  • 2. Bluebridge Cook Strait Ferries Wellington
    StraitNZ Bluebridge is a New Zealand firm that operates roll-on/roll-off freight and passenger shipping across the Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island. Passenger services commenced in 2002 and operate under the Bluebridge brand. Strait Shipping has in the past also operated freight shipping between Wellington and Napier, also in the North Island, and Nelson and Lyttelton in the South Island. The firm started operations in 1992 to compete with the Interisland Line, owned by the then state-owned enterprise New Zealand Rail Limited.
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  • 3. East By West Ferries Wellington
    The Dutch East India Company is one of the most influential and best expertly researched companies/corporations in history. As an exemplary historical company-state, the VOC had effectively transformed itself from a corporate entity into a state, an empire, or even a world in its own right. The VOC World has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and non-fiction works. VOC World studies is an international multidisciplinary field focused on social, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, economic, financial, business, maritime, military, political, legal, diplomatic activities, institutional organization, and administration of the VOC and its colourful world. Some of the notable VOC historians/scholars include Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Leonard Bluss...
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  • 5. Green Cabs Ltd Wellington
    Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots , and traffic control signals , are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic. The world's first traffic light was short lived. It was a manually operated gas-lit signal installed in London in December 1868. It exploded less than a month after it was implemented, injuring its policeman operator. Traffic control started to seem necessary in the late 1890s and Earnest Sirrine from Chicago patented the first automated traffic control system in 1910. It used the words STOP and PROCEED, although neither word lit up.Traffic lights alternate the right of way accorded to users by displaying lights or LED...
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