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Te Ara 3.
Using Te Ara -
The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
3. Manukau Harbour
L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river
Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia
Use this link to open Te Ara
Enter Tamaki river into the search box and use the Harbours and wetlands page to answer these questions.
What two adjectives are used to describe the Manukau Harbour?
The adjectives used are wide and shallow
What landforms are common in the harbour?
Wetlands and rivers
What two things about the Manukau Harbour have led to shipwrecks?
Shifting sandbars and swells
What was the worst shipwreck on the Manukau bar?
The HMS Orpheus – 259 people were on board and 189 people drowned.
Te Ara 2.
Using Te Ara -
The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
2. Tamaki River
L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river
Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia
Enter Tamaki river into the search box and use the Eastern suburbs: Oraki to the Tamaki estuary page to answer these questions.
Where does the river flow from and to?
Mangere East to a tidal estuary on the waitemata.
What was the link used by Maori called?
Otahuhu portage
What two bodies of water does it join?
Waitemata harbour to Manukau harbour
What sort of landform is Tāhuna Tōrea?
sandpits
What is the name of the marina on the Tamaki river?
half moon bay
When was the first Panmure Bridge built?
1866
When was the current bridge built?
1995
Te Ara 1.
Using Te Ara -
The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
1. Waitemata Harbour
L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.
Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.
Use our skimming and scanning skills.
Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.
What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour?
The Waitematā Harbour (also known as Auckland Harbour) is a drowned river valley, stretching from Riverhead in the north-west to Tāmaki River in the east.
Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital?
The harbour’s deep navigable channels and sheltered bays helped to determine Lieutenant-Governor Hobson’s choice of a site for New Zealand's capital in 1840
What does Waitemata mean?
Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978
Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata:
Wai-te-matā means ‘obsidian waters
Auckland’s chief port -Auckland’s port on the Waitematā was vital to the progress of the city and region
Viaduct basin -The site of the old fishing harbour,was redeveloped in the 1990’s
to 2003.
Westhaven -
Other marinas have been constructed around the harbour. On Auckland Anniversary Day each year the Auckland Regatta (the largest one-day regatta in the world) fills the harbour with sails.
Harbour bridge -
The Auckland Harbour Bridge (1,020 m long) was opened in 1959 to link the Auckland isthmus with the north.
Greenhithe bridge -The Greenhithe Bridge was built in 1975 as an alternative harbour crossing, spanning the upper Waitematā from Hobsonville to Greenhithe on the North Shore.
Natural features -Natural features of the Waitematā include Meola reef (also known as The Tokoroa, meaning ‘a long reef’), a rocky submarine promontory.
Copy the map here
using national library 3.
Using the National Library
3. Newspapers
L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river
Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ resource
Enter Panmure pirate into the search box
Open the NZ truth article named - panmure pirate
What event is this article about? It was a robbery.
What is the sub heading on the article? This is an example of what literary device? Dunns daring doing end in disaster.
What does ‘daring do’ mean?You've been told to do it
Why was Lesley George’s dad angry with him?He put the place on fire
How did the fire start?He throw the matches down
Why were the works described as ambrosial?Because he set off in a dingo
Where was the launch moored?Folk of Panmure
What 3 places where the stolen items recovered from?
- A short
- Tousled - Haired
- Sunburnt - Youth
What was the charge of incendiarism for? 3 pounds
Copy and paste the acknowledgement from the site here
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZTR19270210.2.38
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