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Collingwood, New Zealand, the Glossary

Collingwood is a town in the north-west corner of the South Island of New Zealand along Golden Bay / Mohua.^[1]

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Populated places around Golden Bay / Mohua
Populated places in the Tasman District

Aorere River

The Aorere River is in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand that flows from headwaters in the alpine regions of the Kahurangi National Park.

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Asian New Zealanders

Asian New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Asian ancestry (including naturalised New Zealanders who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants).

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The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).

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Buddhism in New Zealand

Buddhism is New Zealand's third-largest religion after Christianity and Hinduism standing at 1.5% of the population of New Zealand.

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Cape Farewell, New Zealand

Cape Farewell is a headland in New Zealand, the most northerly point on the South Island.

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Capital of New Zealand

Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865.

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Christianity in New Zealand

Christianity in New Zealand dates to the arrival of missionaries from the Church Missionary Society who were welcomed onto the beach at Rangihoua Bay in December 1814.

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Collingwood Area School

Collingwood Area School (Te Kura o Aorere) is an area school in the Golden Bay / Mohua town of Collingwood in New Zealand.

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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism marketed as "responsible" travel (using what proponents say is sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people.

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Farewell Spit

Farewell Spit (Onetahua) is a narrow sand spit at the northern end of the Golden Bay, in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Gold rush

A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Golden Bay / Mohua

Golden Bay / Mohua is a large shallow bay in New Zealand's Tasman District, near the northern tip of the South Island.

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HealthPost

HealthPost is a New Zealand-based online retailer specialising in natural health and beauty products.

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.

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Kahurangi National Park

Kahurangi National Park in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand is the second largest of the thirteen national parks of New Zealand.

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Mail order

Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery.

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Mayor of Tasman

The mayor of Tasman is the head of the municipal government of Tasman District, New Zealand.

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Māori electorates

In New Zealand politics, Māori electorates, colloquially known as the Māori seats (Ngā tūru Māori), are a special category of electorate that give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Natural health product

The term natural health product (NHP) is used in Canada to describe substances such as vitamins and minerals, herbal medicines, homeopathic preparations, energy drinks, probiotics, and many alternative and traditional medicines.

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New Zealand census

The New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings (Te Tatauranga o ngā Tāngata Huri Noa i Aotearoa me ō rātou Whare Noho) is a national population and housing census conducted by Statistics New Zealand, a government department, every five years.

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New Zealand electorates

An electorate or electoral district (rohe pōti) is a geographic constituency used for electing a member to the New Zealand Parliament.

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Pākehā

Pākehā (or Pakeha) is a Māori-language word used in English, particularly in New Zealand.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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State Highway 60 (New Zealand)

State Highway 60 is a state highway servicing the far northwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Tasman District

Tasman District is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Tasman District Council

Tasman District Council (Te Kaunihera o te tai o Aorere) is the unitary local authority for the Tasman District of New Zealand.

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Te Tai Tonga

Te Tai Tonga is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives.

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Territorial authorities are the second tier of local government in New Zealand, below regional councils.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingwood,_New_Zealand

Collingwood, New Zealand, the Glossary

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See also

Populated places around Golden Bay / Mohua

Populated places in the Tasman District

References