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(Encyclopedia) Auckland Auckland ôkˈlənd [key], city (2021 pop. 1,630,092), N North Island, New Zealand. It is situated on an isthmus and is the largest urban region and…Bishop Auckland
(Encyclopedia) Bishop Auckland Bishop Auckland ôkˈlənd [key], town, Durham, NE England, on the Wear River. It is a…Firth, Sir Raymond William
(Encyclopedia) Firth, Sir Raymond William, 1901–2002, British social anthropologist, b. Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at Auckland Univ. and studied with Bronislaw Malinowski at the London…Hamilton, city, New Zealand
(Encyclopedia) Hamilton, city, N central North Island, New Zealand, on the Waikato River. Situated between Auckland and Wellington, Hamilton is the…Auckland Islands
(Encyclopedia) Auckland Islands, small uninhabited group (234 sq mi/606 sq km), S Pacific, c.300 mi (480 km) S of Stewart Island, New Zealand, to which they belong. There is a nature preserve for…Hauraki Gulf
(Encyclopedia) Hauraki GulfHauraki Gulfhouräˈkē, –răˈkē [key], large inlet of the Pacific Ocean, N North Island, New Zealand, forming the entrance to Auckland harbor. Numerous islands are found in…Eden, Emily
(Encyclopedia) Eden, Emily, 1797–1869, English novelist. She went with her brother George, Lord Auckland, to India when he was governor-general (1836–42). Her two novels, The Semi-detached House (…Hand, Wayland Debs
(Encyclopedia) Hand, Wayland Debs, 1907–86, folklorist, b. Auckland, New Zealand. Hand wrote Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina (1964), which is ranked among the finest published…North Island
(Encyclopedia) North Island or Te Ika-a-Maui [Maori,=the fish of Maui] (1996 pop. 2,718,188), 44,702 sq mi (115,777 sq km), New Zealand. It is the smaller but more populous of the two principal…Bridges, Simon Joseph
(Encyclopedia) Bridges, Simon Joseph, 1976–, New Zealand lawyer and politician, b. Auckland. A Maori and a member of the conservative National party, Bridges was a lawyer and prosecutor before he was…Trending
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