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Reclamation of Wellington Harbour
The reclamation of Wellington Harbour started in the 1850s, originally to increase the amount of usable flat land for Wellington city. Reclamations in the 1960s and 1970s were to meet the needs of container shipping (containerisation) and new cargo handling methods.〔(Waterfront Reclamation, Wellington City Council )〕 Reclamation has added more than 155 hectares to Wellington.〔(Wellington City Council's Old Shoreline Trail )〕
==Location of Wellington==
A plan for the New Zealand Company's new settlement of Britannia at Pito-one (Petone) had been prepared in England by Samuel Cobham.〔(New Zealand History Online )〕 The key elements of his city were a large amount of flat land on the shores of a harbour, traversable by a navigable river. When surveyors arrived in 1840 on the ''Cuba'' led by Captain William Mein Smith, it was determined that the Hutt River was not navigable and, due to its tendency to flood, was not appropriate to support a major city.〔(An Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966 )〕 For these reasons the new settlement was relocated to the southern shores of Port Nicholson and renamed Wellington.〔(New Zealand history online )〕
Edward Gibbon Wakefield of the New Zealand Company had devised a system of 'packages' of land for colonists of one town acre each. Cobham's Brittania consisted of 1100 town sections, which William Mein Smith struggled to fit into the new location. These sections were squeezed into the available space by sacrificing many of the planned amenities such as parks, reserves, ports, libraries and many other public areas identified in the original plan.〔(Wellington Waterfront Limited )〕 For this reason, from Wellington's outset, there was a need for extra land.
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