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MuseumsSite Name: Auckland Museum Alternative Name: Auckland War Memorial MuseumCountry: New Zealand Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Auckland
Latitude: 36.86051S Longitude: 174.777800E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Auckland War Memorial Museum records the history of New Zealand and the South Pacific. It contains excellent displays featuring early Polynesian settlement across the Pacific and has extensive Maori displays. For prehistorians it is interesting to note the similarity of the pre European contact Maori artifacts (such as stone adzes and axes) and defensive hillfort (pa) sites to those seen in Europe in the Neolithic and Iron Ages. Similar problems found similar solutions on opposite sides of the world albeit in different eras. The lighting is subdued so my photographs are less than perfect. The museum website is: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/
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