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19,230 (2022) Pop. density. 907/km 2 (2349/sq mi) Te Motu Kairangi / Miramar Peninsula is a large peninsula on the southeastern side of the city of Wellington, New Zealand. It is located at the entrance to Wellington Harbour, in Wellington's eastern suburbs.
Haowhenua earthquake. The Haowhenua (Māori for 'land swallower') earthquake was a large earthquake that occurred around 1460 AD causing uplift to parts of Wellington, New Zealand. In his 1923 work Miramar Island and its History, Elsdon Best recounted Māori stories handed down through generations about early settlement in Wellington and the ...
At the time, what is now the Miramar Peninsula was disconnected to the mainland and existed as a separate island within the harbour, known after the first pā as Te Motu Kairangi (or The Exhaulted Island). Much of modern Seatoun then emerged, and the island was connected to the land, when lifted from the sea by the Horowhenua earthquake of 1460 ...
Wellington Harbour (Māori: Te Whanganui-a-Tara [tɛ ˈfaŋanʉi a taɾa]), officially called Wellington Harbour / Port Nicholson, [1] is a large natural harbour on the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island. The harbour entrance is from Cook Strait. Central Wellington is located on parts of the western and southern sides of the harbour ...
Before the 2023 census, Miramar had a slightly different boundary, covering 2.87 km 2 (1.11 sq mi). [1] Using that boundary, Miramar had a population of 9,831 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 345 people (3.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 621 people (6.7%) since the 2006 census.
The agreed dual name of Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay remembers both the Māori and British explorations of New Zealand. Some official place names in New Zealand are dual names, usually incorporating both the Māori place name and the original name given by European settlers or explorers. Although a mixture of Māori and English names is the most common form of dual name, some places, such as ...
4.13.6 Isle of Man. 4.14 Other peninsulas in Europe. 5 North America. Toggle North America subsection. ... Te Motu Kairangi / Miramar Peninsula; Tiritirimatangi ...
The Motu are native inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, living along the southern coastal area of the country. Their indigenous language is also known as Motu, and like several other languages of the region is an Austronesian language. They and the Koitabu people are the original inhabitants and owners of the land on which Port Moresby — the ...