Picton (Māori: Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound...
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Picton was a parliamentary electorate in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand, from 1861 to 1887. The Picton electorate was based on the town of Picton...
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CFB Picton, a former military installation Picton, Lennox and Nueva, islands off Tierra del Fuego, Chile Picton, New Zealand Picton (New Zealand electorate)...
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Air Park | Residential airpark development located at Picton Airport in Marlborough, New Zealand". soundsairpark.com. Retrieved 9 February 2014. "History...
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of Picton in New Zealand, named for Picton, has considered reverting to its Māori name in response to his actions as governor of Trinidad. Picton was...
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Interislander (category Picton, New Zealand)
a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island. It is owned and...
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StraitNZ (category Picton, New Zealand)
Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, as well as trucking and logistics services across New Zealand. Originally a freight-only service...
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Sounds Air (category Picton, New Zealand)
Sounds Air is a New Zealand airline based in Marlborough. The airline was founded in 1986 by Cliff and Diane Marchant to provide low cost flights to the...
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Chris Cairns (category Cricketers from Picton, New Zealand)
ONZM (born 13 June 1970) is a former New Zealand cricketer and former ODI captain, who played for the New Zealand cricket team as an all-rounder. Cairns...
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Coastal Pacific (category Picton, New Zealand)
train that runs between Picton and Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. It is operated by the Great Journeys New Zealand division of KiwiRail...
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HMNZS Moa (P3553) (category Picton, New Zealand)
a Picton builder who renamed the vessel Flightless. On Friday 20 June 2008 the vessel, moored at anchor on the eastern side of Waikawa Bay, Picton, was...
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Lance Cairns (category Cricketers from Picton, New Zealand)
a former all-rounder who played for the New Zealand national cricket team, and is the father of New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns. He was also known...
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USS Echo (category Picton, New Zealand)
broken up in 1990. She was preserved, but in poor condition, at Picton, New Zealand as the Echo Gallery, a scow museum and bar. After the bar closed...
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Wellington and Picton, operated by Interislander (part of KiwiRail) and Bluebridge. Most international visitors arrive via air. New Zealand has four international...
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Picton is a small town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire, in south-western Sydney. The town is located approximately...
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Tony Johnson (broadcaster) (category People from Picton, New Zealand)
Johnson (born 29 August 1959) is a New Zealand rugby commentator and presenter for SKY Television. Johnson hails from Picton and played for the Queen Charlotte...
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MS Strait Feronia (category Picton, New Zealand)
Germanica, which underwent a refit. In early 2015 Strait Shipping in New Zealand purchased the Stena Feronia and renamed her the Strait Feronia. She was...
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then represented the Picton electorate from an 1868 by-election till 1881, when he retired. He was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council on...
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Waimea-Picton was a parliamentary electorate in the Marlborough and Nelson Regions of New Zealand, from 1887 to 1893. In the 1887 electoral redistribution...
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Roderick Thomas (category Cricketers from Picton, New Zealand)
Roderick Thomas (born 14 February 1954) is a New Zealand cricketer. He played in sixteen first-class and three List A matches for Central Districts from...
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heading to the port of Picton, New Zealand. Whilst entering the Tory Channel (which leads through the Marlborough Sounds to Picton) the ship made its turn...
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Read Masters (category Rugby union players from Picton, New Zealand)
New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A lock, Masters represented Canterbury at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national...
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The mayor of Picton officiated over the borough of Picton, New Zealand. The office was created in 1876 when Picton became a borough, and ceased with the...
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Edwin Fox (category Picton, New Zealand)
Australia and New Zealand and carried troops in the Crimean War. The ship is dry-docked at The Edwin Fox Maritime Centre at Picton in New Zealand. She was...
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Charles Edward Peek (category People from Picton, New Zealand)
December 1988) was a New Zealand teacher, child welfare administrator and billiards player. He was born in Picton, Marlborough, New Zealand in 1904. McDonald...
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Nina Agatha Rosamond Barrer (category People from Picton, New Zealand)
1879 – 17 September 1965) was a New Zealand teacher and community leader. She was born in Picton, Marlborough, New Zealand, on 9 August 1879. Krogt, Christopher...
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Cook Strait (redirect from Cook Strait New Zealand)
waters in the world. Regular ferry services run across the strait between Picton in the Marlborough Sounds and Wellington. The strait is named after James...
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Nigel Hutchinson (category People from Picton, New Zealand)
Nigel Hutchinson (13 July 1941 – 23 March 2017) was an English-born New Zealand film producer and commercial director best known for co-producing the...
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Robert Henry Pulleine (category People from Picton, New Zealand)
his studies of Australian trapdoor spiders. Pulleine was born in Picton, New Zealand and spent much of his childhood in Fiji. In 1881 his family moved...
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Wellington (redirect from Wellington New Zealand)
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range...
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