Information about Waitangi, Chatham Islands
Waitangi is the main port and settlement on the Chatham Islands. It is located on the southern shore of Petre Bay, on the west coast of the main island. This small outpost of civilisation is by far the largest settlement in the archipelago, with a population of about 300, approximately 40% of the group's population of 750.
History
Facilities
- Centre for Chatham Islands Council 1995
- Port Waitangi & Fish Processing Factory
- Health services - Four bed hospital facility, is staffed by a Doctor and Nursing Sisters
- Police - one Constable
- Justice - 6 monthly visiting District Court Judge
- Schools - Te one, 4 teacher school
- Banking - ANZ Bank, only one on Island
- Shop - one main shop, sells petrol. Also a cafe nearby.
- Radio - FM station "Radio Weka" - volunteers.
- Television - as of May 1991 New Zealand broadcasts are recorded on video and arrive for rebroadcast - volunteers.
- Telephone by satellite to New Zealand.
- Hotel - Hotel Chathams, on seafront. Doubles as Pub.
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Chatham Islands (Rekohu in the Moriori language and Wharekauri in the Māori language), consists of about 10 islands within a 40-km radius. The islands have officially belonged to New Zealand since 1842.
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Petre Bay is a large bay which comprises about half of the west coast of Chatham Island/Rekohu, the largest island in New Zealand's Chatham Islands archipelago. It is some 20 kilometres in extent, and contains the far smaller Waitangi Bay, on which is sited the island group's
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Chatham Island is by far the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand, — not exactly "halfway between the equator and the pole, and right on the International Date Line" but close enough for tourism marketing
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archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Greek arkhon (arkhi-) ("leader") and pelagos ("sea").
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Anthem
"God Defend New Zealand"
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Capital Wellington
Largest city Auckland
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"God Defend New Zealand"
"God Save the Queen" 1
Capital Wellington
Largest city Auckland
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