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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
9 km · about 15 min drive
Wellington Region, New Zealand · Oceania
Paparangi is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Grenada North, 9km from Mount Victoria Lookout, Wellington.
Paparangi is a town located in Wellington Region, New Zealand. With a population of 2,840, it is an important destination in Oceania.
On a road trip, Paparangi sits in New Zealand, where you drive on the left. It's in the Pacific/Auckland time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Paparangi to your route.
Paparangi, one of the northern suburbs of Wellington in New Zealand, lies approximately 10 km north of the city centre, north-east of Johnsonville, north-west of Newlands and south of Grenada and Woodridge. The population was 2,841 at the time of the 2013 census, an increase of 96 from the 2006 census population.
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New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "flat sky" for the Māori language name Paparangi.
The suburb has a small local shopping-centre and a low-decile primary school.
The area, formerly in small farms and part of Newlands, became a dormitory suburb of Wellington, with major subdivisions in the early 1960s adding about a hundred houses a year. Beazley Homes of Tauranga (owned by Barry Beazley) was a major developer.
Some of the street names are the first names of children living in the area then or of children whose parents became involved in development of the suburb (Cara Crescent, Mark Avenue and Lynda Avenue take their names from children of Barry Beazley).
In 1991 a new landfill opened in Grenada, with direct access via an overbridge to the adjacent motorway. A road extension would give Newlands and Paparangi access to the motorway, but the Grenada Village Progressive Association expressed concerns about any increase in traffic and in car speeds. From 1994 the Wellington City Council consulted with residents, and in 2009 the Mayor opened the "Mark Avenue Extension" connecting the two areas.
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Paparangi is located in Wellington Region, New Zealand, Oceania. The coordinates are -41.2159 latitude, 174.8177 longitude.
Paparangi has a population of approximately 2,840 people, making it a town in New Zealand.
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New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
9 km · about 15 min drive
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196 m summit lookout reached by a sealed road above central Wellington, giving a panorama of the harbour and Cook Strait.
9 km · about 15 min drive
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32 km · about 35 min drive
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