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Khartoum Place
Khartoum Place is a pedestrianised city square in the Auckland CBD, New Zealand. The square, protected by several mature trees, is located between Lorne Street and Kitchener Street, and provides a stairway connection between the two street levels. In 1993, in honour of the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand, a painted 2000– tile memorial and waterfall dedicated to Auckland's and New Zealand women's suffrage movement was installed in the stairway. The artist Claudia Pond Eyley and ceramicist Jan Morrison choose the Auckland-based suffragists depicted in the memorial. The women featured in the lower and main section include (from left): * Amey Daldy – president of the Auckland Women's Franchise League, * Anne Ward – inaugural president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand (WCTU NZ), * Lizzie Frost – journalist, * Matilda Allsopp – one of the first seven women enrolled to vote in Auckland for the Parliamentary elections, * Elisabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland CBD
The Auckland Central Business District (CBD), or Auckland city centre, is the geographical and economic heart of the Auckland metropolitan area. It is the area in which Auckland was established in 1840, by William Hobson. It is New Zealand's leading financial hub, and the centre of the country's economy; the GDP of the Auckland Region was $126.917 billion in the year ending March 2022. The CBD is one of the most densely developed places in New Zealand, with many commercial and some residential developments packed into a space of only . The area is made up of the city's largest concentration of skyscrapers and businesses. Bounded by several major motorways and by the harbour coastline in the north, it is surrounded further out by mostly suburban areas; it is bounded on the North by Waitematā Harbour, east by Parnell, southeast by Grafton, south by Mount Eden, southwest by Newton, west by Freemans Bay and northwest by Viaduct Harbour. Geography Located on the northern sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
