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Richmond (Māori: Waimea) is a town and the seat of the Tasman District Council in New Zealand. It lies 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Nelson in the South Island, close to the southern extremity of Tasman Bay. The town, first settled by Europeans in 1842, [3] was named in 1854 after the town of Richmond on Thames near London. The town has an ...
Tasman Bay, the largest indentation in the north coast of the South Island, was named after Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant Abel Tasman. He was the first European to discover New Zealand on 13 December 1642 while on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company. Tasman Bay passed the name on to the adjoining district, which was formed in ...
Waimea Inlet. Waimea Inlet is a section of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, in New Zealand's South Island.It is at the southern end of the bay, and separated from it by the partial barriers of Rabbit Island and Bell Island to the west and Monaco Peninsula and the reclaimed land of Nelson Airport to the east.
When the construction of the Tasman Hotel (now Richmond Estate) started in the early 1960s, the cottage was deconstructed and moved to its present site next to the library and museum building. [6] The Richmond Cottage was officially re-opened in 1963 by Henry Richmond's son, Howard Parris Richmond, who was born in the cottage in 1878 ...
Tasman Bay (Māori: Te Tai-o-Aorere; officially Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere), originally known in English as Blind Bay, is a large V-shaped bay at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. Located in the centre of the island's northern coast, it stretches along 120 kilometres (75 mi) of coastline and is 70 kilometres (43 mi) across at its ...
Moturoa / Rabbit Island Location of Rabbit Island Geography Location Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere Coordinates 41°16′15″S 173°08′51″E / 41.2709°S 173.1476°E / -41.2709; 173.1476 Area 15 km 2 (5.8 sq mi) Length 8 km (5 mi) Administration New Zealand Demographics Population 0 Moturoa / Rabbit Island is a small island that lies across the southernmost part of Tasman Bay ...