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Murchison, New Zealand, the Glossary

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Populated places in the Tasman District

Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Annette King

Dame Annette Faye King (née Robinson, born 13 September 1947) is a former New Zealand politician.

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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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Blenheim, New Zealand

Blenheim (Waiharakeke) is the most populous town in the region of Marlborough, in the north east of the South Island of New Zealand.

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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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Buller River

The Buller River (Kawatiri) is a river in the South Island of New Zealand.

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A charging station, also known as a charge point, chargepoint, or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a power supply device that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including battery electric vehicles, electric trucks, electric buses, neighborhood electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid vehicles).

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland.

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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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Education Review Office (New Zealand)

The Education Review Office (ERO) (Māori: Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with reviewing and publicly reporting on the quality of education and care of students in all New Zealand schools and early childhood services.

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Gelignite

Gelignite, also known as blasting gelatin or simply "jelly", is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate).

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Glenroy River

The Glenroy River is a tributary of the Mātakitaki River in the north of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Golden Bay County

Golden Bay County was one of the counties of New Zealand on the South Island.

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Hampden, New Zealand

Hampden, a small town in North Otago, New Zealand, lies close to the North Otago coast, 35 kilometres south of Oamaru and 80 kilometres north of the city of Dunedin, to both of which it is connected by State Highway 1.

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Hinduism in New Zealand

Hinduism is the second largest religion in New Zealand.

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International scale of river difficulty

The international scale of river difficulty is an American system used to rate the difficulty of navigating a stretch of river, or a single (sometimes whitewater) rapid.

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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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Lake Matiri

Lake Matiri is a lake adjoining Kahurangi National Park in the northwest corner of New Zealand's South Island.

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List of earthquakes in New Zealand

This is a list of large earthquakes that have occurred in New Zealand.

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Main North Line, New Zealand

The Main North Line, sometimes referred to as part of the South Island Main Trunk railway, is a railway line that runs north from Christchurch in New Zealand up the east coast of the South Island through Kaikōura and Blenheim to Picton.

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Mangles River

The Mangles River is in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Marlborough District

Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (or Tauihu), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island.

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Matiri River

The Matiri River is a river located in the northwest of New Zealand's South Island.

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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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Mātakitaki River

The Mātakitaki River is located in the north of New Zealand's South Island.

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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) is the department of the New Zealand Government responsible for supporting the arts, culture, built heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and advising government on such.

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Ministry of Education (New Zealand)

The Ministry of Education (Māori: Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with overseeing the New Zealand education system.

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Mobil

Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil.

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Mount Owen (New Zealand)

Mount Owen is in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Murchison County, New Zealand

Murchison County was one of the counties of New Zealand on the South Island.

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Muriel Bell

Muriel Emma Bell (4 January 1898 – 2 May 1974) was a New Zealand nutritionist and medical researcher.

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National parks of New Zealand

The national parks of New Zealand are protected natural areas administered by the Department of Conservation (DOC).

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Nelson Lakes National Park

Nelson Lakes National Park is in the South Island of New Zealand, at the northern end of the Southern Alps.

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Nelson Province

Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and originally covered the entire upper South Island, including all of present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, and Tasman districts, along with Nelson City, Grey District north of the Grey River, and the Hurunui District north of the Hurunui River.

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Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.

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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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Pasifika New Zealanders

Pasifika New Zealanders (also called Pacific Peoples) are a pan-ethnic group of New Zealanders associated with, and descended from, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands (also known as Pacific Islanders) outside of New Zealand itself.

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Pākehā

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

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Picton, New Zealand

Picton (Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Postcodes in New Zealand

Postcodes in New Zealand consist of four digits, the first two of which specify the area, the third the type of delivery (street, PO Box, Private Bag, or Rural delivery), and the last the specific lobby, RD (rural delivery) number, or suburb.

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Richmond, Tasman

Richmond (Māori: Waimea) is a town and the seat of the Tasman District Council in New Zealand. Murchison, New Zealand and Richmond, Tasman are populated places in the Tasman District.

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Roderick Murchison

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet, (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Saint Arnaud, New Zealand

Saint Arnaud (previously Rotoiti) is a small alpine village in the Tasman district of New Zealand's South Island, west of the mountains of the Saint Arnaud Range and 90 kilometres southwest of Nelson near the historic Tophouse Settlement. Murchison, New Zealand and Saint Arnaud, New Zealand are populated places in the Tasman District.

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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 1 (New Zealand)

State Highway 1 (SH 1) is the longest and most significant road in the New Zealand road network, running the length of both main islands.

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State Highway 6 (New Zealand)

State Highway 6 (SH 6) is a major New Zealand state highway.

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State Highway 63 (New Zealand)

State Highway 63 (SH 63) is a state highway located in the northern parts of the South Island of New Zealand.

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State Highway 65 (New Zealand)

State Highway 65 (also known as the Shenandoah Highway) is a New Zealand state highway in the South Island.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.

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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 Kauparenui / Gowan River

Te Kauparenui / Gowan River is in the South Island 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/Murchison,_New_Zealand

Also known as Murchison Area School.

, State Highway 63 (New Zealand), State Highway 65 (New Zealand), Suicide attack, Tasman District, Tasman District Council, Te Kauparenui / Gowan River, Te Tai Tonga, Territorial authorities of New Zealand, The Nelson Mail, The Press, Transpower New Zealand, Urban areas of New Zealand, Waimea County, West Coast-Tasman, Westport, New Zealand, Whitewater, 1929 Murchison earthquake, 1989 New Zealand local government reforms, 2013 New Zealand census, 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, 2018 New Zealand census.

Murchison, New Zealand, the Glossary

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Populated places in the Tasman District

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