New Plymouth. The big lake in Brooklands Park and Gardens. Cherry blossom time. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
New Plymouth. The big lake in Brooklands Park and Gardens. Cherry blossom time. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Taranaki Overview. Taranaki is a geographical and administrative region of NZ dominated by the impressive volcano of Mt Taranaki formerly known as Mt Egmont. This perfect volcanic cone is surrounded by a large national park and then rich dairying country. The volcano last erupted in the mid-1700s. It features significantly in local Maori legends. At a height of 2,518 metres (8,261 feet) Mt Taranaki is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world and it resembles Mt Fuji in Japan. Captain James Cook named the mountain in January 1770 after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Earl of Egmont. For most of the year the volcanic peak is covered in snow. The Maori first settled on these fertile lands in the 1300s and always knew it as Taranaki. After the Taranaki Maori Wars the area around the mountain was confiscated from the warring Maori. In 1881 a circle of land around it was created as a national park. In 1978 these lands were returned to the control of the Maori people. The biggest town of the Taranaki region is New Plymouth with around 74,000 people.New Plymouth was established by the New Zealand Company led by the Wakefield brothers. They sent their agent to purchase 60,000 acres of land from the Maori just before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in February 1840 which later made these sales illegal as the Crown had to buy all land from the Maori and then sell it on. The first white settlers arrived from the Plymouth and the West Country areas of England in March 1841. The Maori did not accept this intrusion happily and the small settlement of New Plymouth eventually became a garrison town with several forts along the protective hills and with a garrison of British soldiers stationed here. The First Taranaki Wars broke out in 1860 after disputes between the NZ government and the local Maori over land settlement of a particular 600 acre site. 3,500 British troops and local militia men engaged with around 1,500 Maori warriors. Both sides of the conflict lost over 200 men in the wars. After a year or so the war ended in a truce with no side agreeing to a peace treaty. Hostilities re-emerged in 1863 and continued in the Second Taranaki Wars until 1866. They were prompted by the Crown confiscating around 800,000 acres of land from the Maori as punishment for their involvement in the First Taranaki Wars. The British forces were in firm control of the Taranaki region by the end of 1866. Since 2001 the New Zealand Government has negotiated settlements with four of the eight Taranaki tribes by paying more than $101 million in compensation for the lands. New Plymouth Region.When white settlers arrived most of the lands of Taranaki were largely deserted by the Maori as wars with the Waikato people in the 1830s had seen the disappearance of many Maori. But some remained farming their sweet potato. Two thousand people from Plymouth England arrived on the first seven ships in 1841.But white settlement in the New Plymouth region hardly extended beyond the town until after the Taranaki Maori Wars ceased in1866. As early as 1853 the province contained 2 million acres of arable land. The early settlers grew grain crops and a flourmill was established in 1850. New Plymouth was declared the capital of the small province in 1853 but it was the least populated province of NZ with only 2,000 residents. New Plymouth had one of the earliest newspaper in NZ with the first publication of the Taranaki News in 1852 and the town slowly grew. By 1860 when the First Taranaki Wars erupted only 13,000 acres was being cultivated by whites. Of the land confiscated after the wars 95,000 acres was surveyed into 50 acre plots for white settlers and 91,000 acres was reserved for compliant Maoris. Lands east of Mt Taranaki were opened up by the construction of a railway from New Plymouth to the east in 1877. It reached Stratford in 1879. By 1880 all available land in Taranaki had been sold. As land was cleared saw milling became a major industry and by the 1890s dairying and butter production for the British market was developed with the introduction of refrigeration on ships. Taranaki became the first specialised dairying region of New Zealand. By 1896 there were 46 dairy factories and by 1901 there was a total of 95 butter factories and 21 cheese factories. New Plymouth was not linked by rail to Auckland via the main north railway line until 1932 but an earlier link to Whanganui and Wellington opened in 1886. Passenger rail services ceased in the 1970s. New Plymouth has a major port which is the only west coast port in New Zealand. It was established in 1875. Adjacent to the port are the Sugar Loaf Islands. The islands are volcanic activity of about two million years ago. They are a protected marine reserve for birds, penguins, New Zealand fur seals, dolphins and whales. They were name by Captain Cook in 1770. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-10-09 12:18:04 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | hp PhotoSmart 43x series , Hewlett-Packard |
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| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |