Te Papa Tongarewa from the harbour (rear) view
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand’s national museum, Known as Te Papa, or ‘Our Place’, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum and the National Art Gallery
‘Te Papa Tongarewa’ translates literally to ‘container of treasures’.
Shot and posted in response to the one word photo challenge theme of museum
Wellington CBD
1855 Wairarapa Earthquake
From teara.govt.nz
Shortly after 9 p.m. on the evening of 23 January 1855 a violent earthquake began; in Wellington the main shock lasted for at least 50 seconds.
The earthquake was caused by movement along at least 140 kilometres of the Wairarapa Fault, along the eastern edge of the Rimutaka Range. About 5,000 square kilometres of land west of the fault was lifted up and tilted. The southern end of the Rimutaka Range rose by over 6 metres, but the uplift decreased westward to near zero along the west coast of the Wellington peninsula. Across Cook Strait, the seaward end of the Wairau valley subsided over a metre. Land also shifted over 18 metres horizontally along the Wairarapa Fault.
The uplift created a new fringe of beach and rock platforms along the Wellington coast. Many jetties in Wellington Harbour became unusable, but there were also beneficial effects. Blocks of the city’s central business district now occupy land that was below sea level before 1855. The newly exposed strip of shoreline between Wellington and the Hutt Valley offered a safe road and railway route – parts of the coastal road had previously been impassable at high tide. The uplift of the region helped drain the swampy lower reaches of the Hutt Valley.
Shot in response to the Dutch Goes The Photo challenge theme of forces
My beer, shot from above, looks scarily like those petri dishes in documentaries about the discovery of penicillin
Wellington Railway Station
#MarchSquares
Becky at a “A life of a 40 something” has set a March challenge of square photographs with the theme:
I’m a couple of days late starting – but here goes. And thanks to Cee Neuner for pointing me to the challenge through her blog
Morning over the Eastern Hills
Taken this morning in response to the Dutch Goes the Photo theme of hills
Middleton Road 