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Wellington is the capital of New Zealan, the country's second largest urban area, the most populous national capital in Oceania and the southern-most capital city in the world. It is in the Wellington region at the southern tip of the North Island, near the geographical centre of the country. It is popularly referred to as the "Windy City" due to its historically fierce winds and weather or colloquially as Wellywood.

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  • In 1865 this city succeeded Auckland as capital of New Zealand
  • Sydney,Wellington,Jakarta
  • In 1814 Arthur Wellesley was created the first Duke of this
  • Te Papa, the National Museum of New Zealand, is in this city, the capital
  • This capital city sits on the southern end of New Zealand's North Island
  • If Train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 MPH & Train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital
  • Someone had the bright idea to name this city for a duke even before it became New Zealand's capital
  • After the Battle of Waterloo, he said, "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won"
  • This capital city was founded in 1840 on Lambton Harbour at the extreme south part of the North Island
  • Tennyson's "Ode On the Death of the Duke Of" this place was considered pretty beefy by some
  • This New Zealand city of 150,000 people was named for a British duke
  • The government building in this city is one of the world's largest wooden buildings
  • This British army leader put the boot to the French in Portugal in 1808
  • One of Goya's few foreign patrons was Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of this
  • A filet embellished with pate & mushrooms:Beef ____
  • Before he got his big break playing the lead at Waterloo, he played the sticks in India, Portugal & Spain
  • Te Papa Tongarewa, Maori for "repository of things precious", is the name of the waterfront museum in this city
  • This Brit's battles at Assaye & Argaom in India prepared him for Napoleon
  • Being on the Cook Strait makes this second-largest city in population a bit windy
  • An 1855 earthquake in this Kiwi city raised the harbor bed by over a yard, allowing land to be drained & reclaimed
  • Jakarta,Canberra,Wellington
  • Govt. Building, on Lambton Quay in this New Zealand capital, is one of the world's largest wooden buildings
  • Major projects to reclaim land from the sea have thrived here since the 1850s, before it was N.Z.'s capital
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of this, was known as a soldier but had an eye for art, as you can see at Apsley House

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