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The 2006 Auckland Blackout showcased the fact that Auckland's power-supply infrastructure is still very vulnerable to disruption. A faulty powerline shackle caused a short-circuit at the Otahuhu substation, with the blackout affecting wide parts of the conurbation, including the CBD, but sparing most of Waitakere City and North Shore City .
Auckland (1841 – February 1865): Named in honor of George Eden, Earl of Auckland, then Viceroy of India. In Māori, Auckland is Tamaki Makaurau, which means 'strategic features desired by many'. Old Russell (1840–1841): Named after Lord John Russell. Nicaragua: (1821–1857 alternating between Conservative govts.: Granada and Liberal govts.:
Auckland (/ ˈ ɔː k l ə n d / AWK-lənd; [4] Māori: Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about 1,531,400 (June 2024). [2]
c. 1600 – The rangatira Maki migrates north from the Kawhia Harbour, assisting Ngāti Awa relatives to conquer and unify Tāmaki Māori peoples. Maki settles near the Kaipara River mouth, and his children settle along the west coast and northern Auckland, creating the tribal identities including Te Kawerau ā Maki, Ngāti Manuhiri and Ngāti Kahu.
Auckland Weekly News 1901 Christmas Number Auckland Weekly News 1903. The Weekly News was founded by the Daily Southern Cross on 25 November 1863, primarily for country readers who couldn't get the paper every day. [3] It was followed on 7 April 1866 by the Weekly Herald, a similar paper from the publisher of the New Zealand Herald. [4]
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The Auckland Star was an evening daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, from 24 March 1870 to 16 August 1991. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Survived by its Sunday edition, the Sunday Star , part of its name endures in The Sunday Star-Times , created in the 1994 merger of the Dominion Sunday Times and the Sunday Star .
The Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau (ancestral mountains of Auckland) are 14 volcanic cones that hold great historical, spiritual, ancestral and cultural significance to the 13 Māori iwi and hapū of Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau (also known as the Tāmaki Collective), who have owned them since 2014. [1] [2]