Somes Island
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Somes Island is an island in the middle of Wellington harbour. It is a lot like Alcatraz, which is rather fitting as it used to be used as an animal quarantine facility. This view is quite outstanding and looks north up Wellington harbour.
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Greater Wellington promotes Quality for Life by ensuring our environment is protected while meeting the economic, cultural and social needs of the community.
Greater Wellington's specific responsibilities include environment management, flood protection and land management, provision of regional parks, public transport planning and funding, and metropolitan water supply.
Some facts about the Greater Wellington region:
* The region covers a land area of 813,005 hectares and a maritime area of 786,700 hectares. There are 497 kilometres of coastline.
* The population of the region is 445,400 ( Statistics NZ, estimated resident population, June 2002).
* Greater Wellington manages 320 kilometres of river channels and 280 kilometres of stopbanks. We are responsible for one of the largest flood protection schemes in New Zealand.
* Around 35 million passenger journeys are made on the region's public transport system each year.
* Greater Wellington collects, treats and delivers about 155 million litres of high quality water each day, on average, to the Wellington, Hutt, Upper Hutt and Porirua city councils.
* Greater Wellington manages possum control programmes on approximately 322,000 hectares of land in the region each year.
* Greater Wellington manages 50,000 hectares of regional parks and forests.