Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Rongotai> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 78 of
78
with 100 triples per page.
- Rongotai abstract "This article discusses the Wellington city suburb of Rongotai. For the article about the New Zealand parliamentary electorate of the same name see Rongotai (New Zealand electorate)Rongotai is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located southeast of the city centre. It is on the Rongotai isthmus, between the Miramar Peninsula and the suburbs of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay. It is known mostly for being the location of the Wellington International Airport. It is roughly in the centre of the Rongotai electorate, which is much bigger than the suburb.Until about the 15th century, the Rongotai isthmus was probably a shallow channel known as Te Awa a Tia. The only part of the current isthmus above water was the small hill which now has the airport control tower on it; the Miramar Peninsula was an island known as Te Motu Kairangi at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. Māori oral history describes a massive earthquake known as Haowhenua ("land swallower" or "land destroyer") which raised the seabed so that it became possible to wade across to Miramar. Studies of sediment suggest that it was once below sea level. Following the earthquake, the seabed seems to have silted up, creating a sandflat which linked Miramar to the mainland, at least at low tide. When James Cook entered Wellington Harbour in 1773 he found the former channel impassable by boat.In 1855, another earthquake further lifted the isthmus so that it became permanently dry land. The southern half remained mostly sand dunes, but houses were built on the northern end, as was a coal-fired power station and Rongotai College. In 1939-1940 Rongotai became the site of the 1940 New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, which attracted more than 2.5 million people. The coal-fired power station was later closed and the site is now occupied by a fire station. Since the early twentieth century, the dunes had been used as a runway for light aircraft. By World War II a more permanent airfield had been built, and was used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, who also took over the centennial buildings after the close of the exhibition. On 24 October 1959 Wellington's international airport was opened, the runway and associated buildings taking over the entire eastern half of the suburb. In the process of building the airport, 135 acres (0.55 km2) of land was reclaimed and 180 houses were moved.[1] Light industry and a Rongotai College playing field occupied most of the south-west quarter of the suburb. The north-west quarter continued to be residential apart from the college and a few corner shops. In the early 2000s the industrial section of Rongotai was transformed when an old warehouse was turned into a retail park centring on a large branch of The Warehouse (a discount store). Traffic in the area has increased dramatically.".
- Rongotai thumbnail Rongotai_nw.jpg?width=300.
- Rongotai wikiPageExternalLink 1939.html.
- Rongotai wikiPageID "12027565".
- Rongotai wikiPageLength "4541".
- Rongotai wikiPageOutDegree "31".
- Rongotai wikiPageRevisionID "668610158".
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cook_Strait.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Category:Suburbs_of_Wellington_City.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Evans_Bay.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Isthmus.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink James_Cook.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Kilbirnie,_New_Zealand.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink List_of_isthmuses.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Lyall_Bay.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Maupuia.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Miramar,_New_Zealand.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Miramar_Peninsula.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Moa_Point.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Māori_people.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink New_Zealand_Centennial_Exhibition.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Oral_history.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Rongotai_(New_Zealand_electorate).
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Rongotai_College.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Rongotai_isthmus.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Royal_New_Zealand_Air_Force.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink The_Warehouse.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink The_Warehouse_Group.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Wellington.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Wellington_Harbour.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink Wellington_International_Airport.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLink File:Rongotai_south.jpg.
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLinkText "Rongotai (New Zealand electorate)".
- Rongotai wikiPageWikiLinkText "Rongotai".
- Rongotai airports Wellington_International_Airport.
- Rongotai caption "The north-west part of Rongotai.".
- Rongotai city "Wellington City".
- Rongotai east Miramar,_New_Zealand.
- Rongotai hasPhotoCollection Rongotai.
- Rongotai name "Rongotai".
- Rongotai north Evans_Bay.
- Rongotai northeast Maupuia.
- Rongotai northwest Evans_Bay.
- Rongotai south Lyall_Bay.
- Rongotai southeast Moa_Point.
- Rongotai southwest Lyall_Bay.
- Rongotai west Kilbirnie,_New_Zealand.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Convert.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_New_Zealand_suburbs.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Rongotai wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Suburbs_of_Wellington_City.
- Rongotai subject Category:Cook_Strait.
- Rongotai subject Category:Suburbs_of_Wellington_City.
- Rongotai point "-41.324 174.804".
- Rongotai type Article.
- Rongotai type Place.
- Rongotai type PopulatedPlace.
- Rongotai type Article.
- Rongotai type Location.
- Rongotai type Place.
- Rongotai type Thing.
- Rongotai type SpatialThing.
- Rongotai type Q486972.
- Rongotai comment "This article discusses the Wellington city suburb of Rongotai. For the article about the New Zealand parliamentary electorate of the same name see Rongotai (New Zealand electorate)Rongotai is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located southeast of the city centre. It is on the Rongotai isthmus, between the Miramar Peninsula and the suburbs of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay. It is known mostly for being the location of the Wellington International Airport.".
- Rongotai label "Rongotai".
- Rongotai sameAs m.02vmd12.
- Rongotai sameAs Rongotai.
- Rongotai sameAs Q7365665.
- Rongotai sameAs Q7365665.
- Rongotai lat "-41.324".
- Rongotai long "174.804".
- Rongotai wasDerivedFrom Rongotai?oldid=668610158.
- Rongotai depiction Rongotai_nw.jpg.
- Rongotai isPrimaryTopicOf Rongotai.