Nelson Lakes National Park New Zealand
Nelson has beaches and a sheltered harbour. Other tall waterfalls in the park include Browne Falls , Humboldt Falls , Lady Alice Falls , and Bowen Falls , as well as countless temporary waterfalls in the fjords that come alive following rainfall. The creation of Rocks Road around the waterfront area after the Tahunanui slump [24] in increased the effects of the tide on Nelson city’s beach, Tahunanui, and removed sediment.
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The company earmarked profits to finance the free passage of artisans and labourers, with their families, and for the construction of public works. However, by September only about one third of the lots had sold. Despite this the colony pushed ahead, and land was surveyed by Frederick Tuckett.
Glacier National Park To Great Falls Mt, after some delay, Hobson allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The Company selected the site now occupied by Nelson City because it had the best harbour in the area.
But it had a major drawback: it lacked suitable arable land ; Nelson City stands right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60, acres km2less than one third of the area required by the Company plans. This allowed the settlement to begin, but the lack of Glacier National Park To Great Falls Mt would prove the source of much future conflict.
The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November When the four first immigrant ships — FifeshireMary-AnnLord Auckland and Lloyds — arrived three months later, they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds.
Within 18 months the Company had Nelson Lakes National Park New Zealand out 18 ships with men, women and children. However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners. Cultural and religious immigrants[ edit ] St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Upper Moutere The early settlement of Nelson province included a proportion of German immigrants, who arrived on the ship Sankt Pauli and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau Upper Moutere and Neudorf.
Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. January Learn how and when to remove this template message After a brief initial period of prosperity, the lack of land and of capital caught up with the settlement and it entered a prolonged period of relative depression. The labourers had to accept a cut in their wages. Organised immigration ceased a state of affairs that continued until the s.
To the south-east of Nelson lay the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. This resulted in the Wairau Affraywhere 22 settlers died. It was proclaimed a Bishop’s See and city under letters patent by Queen Victoria on 27 September[14] the second New Zealand city proclaimed in this manner after Christchurch.
Edmund Hobhouse [15] was the first Bishop. Coat of arms[ edit ] Nelson City has a coat of arms, obtained in from the College of Arms to mark the Centenary of Nelson as a City.
The supporters on the dexter side a Huia Bird and on the sinister side Glacier National Park To Great Falls Mt Kotuku both proper. This motto is the same as that of Lord Nelson. Nelson Province[ edit ] The Nelson Province as constituted in From untilwhen provincial Nelson Lakes National Park New Zealand were abolished, Nelson was the capital of Nelson Province.
Nelson provincial Glacier National Park To Great Falls Mt edit ] Nelson Anniversary Day is a public holiday observed in the northern half of the South Island of New Zealand, being the area’s provincial anniversary day.
It is observed throughout the historic Nelson Province, even though the provinces of New Zealand were abolished in The holiday usually falls on the Monday closest to 1 February, the…
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Within 18 months the Company had sent out 18 ships with men, women and children. Waterways[ edit ] The Nelson territorial authority area is small just km2 and has four main waterways, the Whangamoa, Wakapuaka, Maitai and Roding Rivers. Understory with shrubs, ferns and mosses Crown ferns Vegetation and wildlife[ edit ] Fiordland National Park contains the majority of the largest area of unmodified vegetation in New Zealand.