Walk Details
NZ Walking Routes > Wellington > Wellington City > Old Shoreline Heritage Walk
Old Shoreline Heritage Walk
- Location
- The trail starts at the eastern end of Te Aro, near Oriental Bay, and finishes at Pipitea Pa on Thorndon Quay.
- Description
This walk takes you on a trip through 160 years of Wellington history, from the infancy of the European settlement of Port Nicholson to a modern city. Few places in the world have been so dramatically altered by the natural and human movement of the landscape, and in such a short space of time.
Wellington’s shoreline today is very different from the one on which the first European settlers landed in 1840. In those days, it was simply a beach and, until wharves and jetties were built, it remained the only means of access from the water. Since those
early days, reclamation has added more than 155 hectares of land to the inner-city area. Earthquakes have raised land and led to the removal and replacement of hundreds of buildings.
Today it is hard to imagine how Wellington once looked.Refer below website for further information on this walk.
- Duration
- 3.0 hours
- Amenities
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- Historical
- Source
- www.wellington.govt.nz
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