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Wellington

Wellington
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About Wellington

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed.

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This slide got bought out and got taken to Wellington, and they had it there for a few years, and eventually it got taken down. The position where it was in Wellington is where Peter Jackson's studios are today.

from No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 at 00:35:51 ยท read transcript

Other times Wellington came up

  1. I go on here. This one is sent him by Mike Boone. Mike Boone says the greatest spy scandal in New Zealand history occurred in 1981 when a member of the Secret Intelligence Service lost his work briefcase somewhere in Wellington. It was eventually discovered by a 10-year-old boy and it contained three pies and a porn magazine. This, it's enough that a 10-year-old boy has found it.

    Little Fish: If You Believe What the Government Tells You, 2026-01-04 ยท listen

  2. In 1977, that would have been more money. A bit more, but not that much. Also, it was questionable whether it was his penis at all. Was this woman upset that, you know, did her elder sister get the Duke of Wellington's penis in the bill or something? Was it was the whole bequested penises of one size of shape or another? Because his penis is certainly diminutive. It measures 1.5 inches now.

    No Such Thing As A Dirty Pair Of Jeans, 2014-06-07 ยท listen

  3. They were going to do it properly, like a proper game. It could have been that Napoleon would have won it. Oh. but the Allies won. At one stage, the Duke of Wellington in the battle had a traffic cone on his head. Because in Glasgow, which is where it was, famously there's a statue there where they always put a traffic cone on. That's so funny. That's so cool.

    No Such Thing As A Mungmonger, 2020-02-28 ยท listen

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Coordinates: -41.2889, 174.7772

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