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A Sportronic game console. New Zealand was an early adopter of the video game phenomenon, despite its remoteness. [5] Many Atari 2600 titles were assembled under licence by Monaco Distributors in Auckland. [6] New Zealand developed its own Pong-style game console, the Sportronic, in the late 1970s, as a result of import licensing laws. [7] [8]
Auckland's ports are the second largest in the country, behind the Port of Tauranga, [160] and a large part of both inbound and outbound New Zealand commerce travels through them, mostly via the facilities northeast of Auckland CBD. Freight usually arrives at or is distributed from the port via road, though the port facilities also have rail ...
The 1950 British Empire Games were the fourth staging of what is now called the Commonwealth Games.It was held in Auckland, New Zealand, between 4 and 11 February 1950, after a 12-year gap from the third edition of the games.
Many of New Zealand's cities and towns are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national or international level, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
In response, Thomson gave prosaic Northumbrian names to them, often simply in the form of a Northumbrian dialectic name for an animal. [6] The Maniototo region around the town of Ranfurly is rife with such names as Kyeburn, Gimmerburn, Hoggetburn, and Wedderburn as a result. Ranfurly itself was originally called "Eweburn".
Auckland City was the most populous local authority in the country, with a population of 450,300 at 30 June 2010. [2] In 2010 it was made up of 188 ethnic groups, making it New Zealand's most diverse city, and slightly more diverse than in 2007, when 185 ethnic groups had been counted.
True-colour image of the region showing the Auckland urban area as the brownish area just left of centre, with the Hauraki Gulf to the right. On the mainland, the region extends from the mouth of the Kaipara Harbour in the north across the southern stretches of the Northland Peninsula, through the Waitākere Ranges and the Auckland isthmus and across the low-lying land surrounding the Manukau ...
While trams and railway lines shaped Auckland's rapid extension in the early first half of the 20th century, they were soon overtaken by motor vehicles, with Auckland boasting one of the highest car-ownership rates of the world even before World War II. Their growing popularity meant that urban development was freed from narrow corridors, and ...