 Rimu Street is the main street of Eastbourne. Eastbourne is a suburb of Lower Hutt city in the southern North Island of New Zealand. Its population is about 4600. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 594 pixelsFull resolution (2304 × 1712 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Lower Hutt is a city in the lower North Island of the country of New Zealand. ...
North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ...
Location
An outer suburb, it is situated on the eastern shore of Wellington Harbour,5 kilometres south of the main part of Lower Hutt's urban area, and directly across the harbour from the Miramar Peninsula in Wellington city. It is reached from Lower Hutt by a narrow exposed coastal road via the industrial suburb of Seaview. It comprises some 2000 residential homes spread over the seven main small bays of Point Howard, Lowry Bay, York Bay, Mahina Bay, Days Bay, Rona Bay and Robinson Bay, although only the last two are commonly considered part of Eastbourne itself. There are two smaller bays also; Sunshine Bay & Sorrento Bay. Wellington Habour is the large natural habour at the south-eastern tip of the North Island, on which New Zealands capital stands. ...
View of Point Dorset and Breaker Bay on the Miramar Peninsula. ...
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Close to the sea and catching afternoon sun, the bays are quite steep with the lower reaches having homes, many with spectacular harbour views. Higher up there is mainly native bush and trees. With a locally administered possum eradication program much of the native bush has regenerated including some magnificent red flowering northern rātā trees. The bush has numerous tracks running to and from them including a track along the entire bays hills ridge. It also has sheltered swimming beaches that are a major attraction. Eastbourne is also a popular windsurfing and kitesurfing location during Wellington’s frequent windy weather. Binomial name A.Cunn. ...
A windsurfer with modern gear tilts the rig and carves the board to perform a planing gybe (downwind turn) close to shore in Maui, Hawaii, one of the popular destinations for windsurfing. ...
Kitesurfing in the Columbia River Gorge Kitesurfers use power kites tethered to harnesses to glide through water and air Kitesurfing, also known as kiteboarding, involves using a power kite to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (a wakeboard-like board). ...
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There is a regular trans-harbour ferry service between Wellington and Eastbourne, which docks at the Days Bay wharf in Eastbourne and at Queen's Wharf close to down-town Wellington. The ferry supplements (and is normally faster than) bus links around the harbour. A one-way ferry journey takes about 25 minutes, while a bus or car from Wellington can take 30 minutes, and closer to 60 minutes during rush hour.
Prior to its amalgamation into Lower Hutt, the Borough of Eastbourne was a separate town, with its own council and civic administration. The Eastbourne Community Board is a remnant of the town council and remains vocal on local issues. After much unhappiness with the council and community board an independent group calling itself "Eastbourne Rights" was set up and one of its first issues was to promote the secession from Lower Hutt and amalgamation with Wellington City Council.
Eastbourne has one volunteer fire brigade which is located in Makaro Street, near one of the three local primary schools, Muritai School. The other schools are San Antonios and Wellesley College. Established in 1897, Muritai School is state school teaching children from year 1 through to year 8. ...
Wellesley College is a womens liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. ...
The main township has cafes a delicatessen, a book shop, restaurants, small supermarket, several takeaways, a fresh fruit & veg shop, a Dairy, pharmacy, antique shop, Pub, Beauty salons, gift stores, butcher, computer shop, and womans fashion store.
At the end of Eastbourne beyond Burdan's gate there is a long pedestrian-only coastal road (unsealed) which extends out to the Wellington harbour entrance heads. The backdrop terrain is steep, exposed and beautifully natural. There are 3 lighthouses at the heads. The coastal road is a popular weekend walk for locals and tourists.
History
Days Bay Days Bay was originally called Hawtrey Bay. It was settled by George and Anne Day and their family, who had emigrated in 1841 from Kent aboard the Arab. William Tod appears to have employed George Day to look after his interests in the area while he went south. They had permission to cut and sell firewood and timber. The Days built their house in the bay and operated a schooner that ferried early settlers between the Hutt Valley and Wellington. After their house was severely damaged by an earthquake, the Day family left the bay in November 1849 aboard the schooner Flirt, which was captained by their eldest son George Fredrick Day, and sailed to Lyttelton in Canterbury, where the settlement of Christchurch took place. By December 1849 the family had settled in Sumner and George Day had become a road construction overseer, while the rest of the family appears to have continued their firewood, timber and shipping activities. 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ...
Lower and Upper Hutt cities are marked as 2 and 3 in this satellite image of the Wellington area (composite landsat-7 image) The Hutt Valley is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. ...
1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Lyttelton on a sunny day Lyttelton (43. ...
The New Zealand region of Canterbury is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains. ...
For other uses, see Christchurch (disambiguation). ...
Sumner is a coastal seaside village-like suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. ...
Days Bay has particular associations with the young Katherine Mansfield as her parents owned a hoilday house in the bay. The story "At the Bay" was based on her experiences of staying in Days Bay as a child. Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. ...
The wharf in Days Bay was built by brothers Maurice and John Kleinjan, who immigrated from the Netherlands and set up a successful construction company. The first step onto the wharf has Kleinjan Brothers carved into the concrete.
References - Beaglehole, A., & Carew, A. (2001). Eastbourne: a history of the eastern bays of Wellington Harbour Eastbourne, NZ: Historical Society of Eastbourne. ISBN 0-473-07966-6
- Paterson, Ann (1983). Stories of York Bay: a community effort. ISBN 0-473-00106-3
- Amodeo, Colin (ed.) (1998) Rescue: The Sumner community and its lifeboat service. Sumner, Christchurch: Sumner Lifeboat Institution Incorporated.
Eastbourne contains a family called the O'Brien/Broadbents in this famliy is Julian O'Brien producer of Country Calander.
See Also Shown within East Sussex Geography Status: Borough Region: South East England Historic County: Sussex Admin. ...
External links - Muritai Primary School
- Wellesley College (Primary School)
- Anglican Parish of St Alban's
Coordinates: 41°18′S, 174°54′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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