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The following is a list of notable shopping centres in New Zealand. For comparison, the largest mall in Canada, the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has a retail space of 350,000 m 2. The largest in the United States of America is the 230,000 m 2 Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Otira is a small township fifteen kilometres north of Arthur's Pass in the central South Island of New Zealand. It is on the northern approach to the pass, a saddle between the Ōtira and Bealey Rivers high in the Southern Alps. A possible meaning of Otira is "o" (place of) and "tira" (the travellers). [ 1]
Rongotea is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers 0.58 km 2 (0.22 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 700 as of June 2023, [2] with a population density of 1,207 people per km 2. It is part of the larger Awahuri statistical area.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, [a] is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) [3] south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps.
Parihaka is a community in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in New Zealand, became the centre of a major campaign of non-violent resistance to European occupation of confiscated land in the area.
7318. The Grand Chateau, also known as the Chateau Tongariro, was a hotel and resort complex located in Whakapapa Village close to Whakapapa skifield on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu, within the boundaries of Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's oldest national park. It is also close to the volcanic peaks of Mount Tongariro and Mount Ngauruhoe.
The name is the subject of a 1960 song by the New Zealand balladeer Peter Cape. [12] It appears in the 1976 (re-released in 1979) single "The Lone Ranger" by British band Quantum Jump , which featured in the title sequence of the second series of The Kenny Everett Video Show .
Hamilton ( Māori: Kirikiriroa) is an inland city in the North Island of New Zealand. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato region. With a territorial population of 185,300, [ 4] it is the country's fourth most-populous city. Encompassing a land area of about 110 km 2 (42 sq mi), [ 5 ...