Famous landmarks in new zealand

Answer 1

Waikiki, volcanoes, Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, the ocean, the weather, Surfing, macadamia nuts, pineapples. If you've ever lived there, they're famous for never finishing the building of highways. Any time native human remains are found, the entire highway has to be rerouted.

Answer 2

The enormous Kaipara and Hokianga harbours. The Taupo Volcanic Zone stretching from White Island through Rotorua to Taupo and Mt Ruapehu.

Banks Peninsula and the Otago Peninsula in the south, with Mt Cook/Aoraki and Tititea/Mt Aspiring and perhaps Mitre Peak adding to it.

Answer 3

Landmarks:Diamond Head

Aloha Clock Tower

Arizona Memorial

Mauna Loa

People:Barack Obama.

Bette Midler.

Duke Kamehameha.

Don Ho.

Answer 4

Angela Perez Baraquio (Miss America 2001)

Brian Ching (First Hawaiian to play on national soccer team)

Bryan Clay (Olympic Decathlon silver medalist)

Carole Kai Onouye (singer and philanthropist)

Don Ho (singer)

Don Stroud, actor

Duane Chapman, "Dog the Bounty Hunter"

Harold Sakata, actor

Henry Berger, Bandmaster

Hoku Ho, singer

Israel Kamakawiwoole, singer

Jack Johnson, singer and documentary film maker

James Shigeta, actor

Jean Erdman, dancer and choreographer

Kelly Hu, actress and Miss Teen USA 1985

Lauren Graham, TV actress

Mackey Feary, singer

Malani Bilyeu, Singer

Nicole Kidman, Actress born in Hawaii

Jonathan Von Brana (Elvis Impersonator)

Steven Fung, filmmaker

Annie Montague Alexander, philanthropist and financier

Archibald Scott Cleghorn

Carl Damaso (labor leader)

Charles Palumbo (architect)

Charles Reed Bishop, banker, philanthropist

Claus Spreckels developer

Ellison Onizuka (astronaut)

George Helm, Kahoolawe Ohana activist

George Parsons Lathrop, journalist, poet

Gerrit P. Judd, advisor

Henry J. Kaiser, Industrialist

James D. Dole, Pineapple plantation owner

James Campbell

Kawaipuna Prejean, Hawaiian activist

Pablo Manapit (labor leader)

Robert Kiyosaki, author of financial books

Steve Case, former CEO of American Online

Military

Admiral Bernard Clarey

Missionaries

Amos S. Cooke, missionary and educator

Father Damien, Molokai leper colony worker

Gerrit P. Judd, missionary

Hiram Bingham I, missionary

Hiram Bingham II, missionary

Hiram Bingham III, US Senator from Connecticut, discovered Macchu Picchu

Samuel N. Castle, missionary

Politicians

Barack Obama, U.S. Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate

Benjamin J. Cayetano, First Filipino American Governor

Daniel K. Akaka, first native Hawaiian US Senator

Daniel K. Inouye, senator

George Ariyoshi, first Japanese-American elected governor

Herbert Choy, First Asian-American Federal judge in history

Hiram L. Fong, first Chinese-American senator

Science and Nature

Ellison Onizuka, astronaut

Merlin Tuttle, mammalogist

Thomas Jaggar, geologist and founder of Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

Athletes

Alexander Cartwright, father of American Baseball

Andy Irons, Surfer

Benny Agbayani, Pro baseball player

Bethany Hamilton, surfer and shark attack survivor

Chad Rowan Yokozuna (Akebono), sumo wrestler

Clyde Aikau, Surfer

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Olympic swimmer

Eddie Aikau, Surfer and Famous Lifeguard

Laird Hamilton, Surver

Ron Darling, baseball player

Salevaa Atisanoe (Konishiki), sumo wrestler

Shanon Kimua, Mr. Olympia 2005

Answer 5

Kiwi 360-Giant Kiwifruit Te Puke Carrot Oakune Sky tower Auckland One tree hill Auckland Beehive Wellingon Moeraki Boulders Moeraki Giant Gumboot Taihape Corregated Iron sheep and dog Tirau Kiwi Eketahuna Country signpost Bluff Trout Gore and Taupo Chocolate factory Dunedin The Cathedral Christchurch Te Papa Wellington Auckland Museum Auckland

Answer 6

There are many, all across a broad and varied range of categories such as the arts, geography, music and even manmade.

Some good examples of natural features include the Punakaiki (Pancake) Rocks, Fiordland National Park and the hot sulpher, mud and geothermal lakes of Rotorua, while The Alpine Fault that runs the length of the Southern Alps is famous for it's geophysics.

Many small towns also have their own landmarks and several areas have a giant statue of some nature to symbolise what their area is best known for, including a gumboot in Taihape, a Salmon in Rakaia, a golden guitar in Gore and a sheepdog in Tekapo.

Answer 7

Auckland: The skytower

Wellington: The beehive (Our parliment house)

Dunedin: Cadbury chocolate factory

Mountains: Mt. Aoraki (Mt. Cook) Highest NZ mountain

Mt. Taranaki

Mt. Ruapehu

Mt. Nguruahoe

Rivers: Waikato

Rangitikei

Answer 8

There are many famous landmarks in Hawaii including Diamond Head. Other famous places include Pearl Harbor, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Waikiki Beach.

Answer 9

Ohakune Carrot, The Giant L&P Bottle, Parliament, The Bee Hive,