A photograph of a emergency management personnel on the runway at Wellington airport. In the background other personnel are boarding a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules C-130.
Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue in a building which was severely damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A member of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue team speaking with Tom Ewald, the Chief of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Urban Search and Rescue Team.
A member of the New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue Team speaking at the Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Service. The service was held in Hagley Park on 18 March 2011.
An authority granted by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, providing the authority to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect archaeological sites within the Christchurch City area.
Bricks have fallen from the walls of the former Princess Cinema in New Brighton, exposing the interior. The photographer comments, "Back of the old Princess Cinema in New Brighton after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 February. In this picture you can see inside the old cinema curtains. This building has now been knocked down as it was so dangerous".
Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 9 September. This week .... New Zealanders getting savvy about price discrimination, sorting the News from the TV programmes, studying coral reefs to save them from extinction, we remember sports braodcaster Graeme Moody, the World of Wearable Arts travels to Hong Kong, and we have a series of features and interviews from a weekend of commemorating a year of earthquakes in Canterbury.
A large group of people stand on a huge sundial in a pattern that forms a map of New Zealand; the hand of the sundial casts a shadow that falls on nine minutes to one. Context - the people of New Zealand maintained a vigil of two minutes silence at 12.51 on 1 March which was exactly a week after the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February struck. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Roger Sutton, the chief executive of networks company Orion has taken up a five-year contract as the CEO of the Christchurch Earthquake Reconstruction Authority, the top bureaucrat in the post-quake city.
Public and electoral law professor at Otago University, Andrew Geddis.
Members of Civil Defence Logistics Team conferring with the New Zealand Police at the temporary headquarters for Civil Defence in the Christchurch Art Gallery after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
The collapse of the Christchurch Cathedral during the devastating earthquake of February the 22nd struck a powerful blow to the core of Canterbury and New Zealand as a whole.
With the silencing of the Cathedral bells in Christchurch following February's earthquake there are now just six places in New Zealand where a full set of bells can be rung.
The Royal Commission into the Canterbury Earthquakes continues today, with overseas experts critiquing a New Zealand report that calls for a two-billion dollar upgrade to strengthen earthquake-prone buildings.
Members of Civil Defence Logistics Team conferring with the New Zealand Police at the temporary headquarters for Civil Defence in the Christchurch Art Gallery after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the New Zealand Police on the Smiths City car park, which was severely damaged during the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of members of the New Zealand Army eating pizza on the side of Park Terrace near the intersection with Bealey Avenue. In the background are two army trucks.
A photograph of members of the New Zealand Army eating pizza on the side of Park Terrace near the intersection with Bealey Avenue. In the background are two army trucks.
A photograph of members of the New Zealand Army eating pizza on the side of Park Terrace near the intersection with Bealey Avenue. In the background are two army trucks.
A view past the intersection of Peterborough and Victoria Streets. The building that housed the New Zealand College of Early Childhood Education and Antiqueworld can be seen in the background.
Christchurch Described Christchurch, New Zealand, is called the “City of the Plains” for its streets are as level as a billiard table, giving the visitor an impression that each street…
This charming advertisement designed in 1913, was printed onto postcards and distributed at the New Zealand High Commission Office in London to attract young, single women to the colony. Irregardle…
Tiny British-made locomotive engines first began chugging between Ferrymead’s Wharf on the estuary and the city on December 1st, 1863. This was New Zealand’s first public railway line, …
Wendy Riley A relative newcomer to Christchurch, Wendy has deep-rooted connections to the city. Her ancestors, like many colonial New Zealanders, traced their origins to Scotland and England. After…
As a man stands up to his knees in liquefaction as Christchurch rocks in another aftershock he reads a newspaper which has one headline reading 'More severe aftershocks in Christchurch' and a second headline that reads 'I have an unshakeable belief in New Zealanders says next Gov. Gen.'. Context - Two earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks have hit Christchurch, the first on 4 September 2010 and a second more devastating one on 22 February 2011. The new Governor General is Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae; he takes over the role from incumbent Sir Anand Satyanand in August 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
International research has shed new light on why the February earthquake in Christchurch was so damaging.
New Zealand Fire Service personnel conferring on Cashel Street in the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake. In the background, the ruins of the Canterbury Television Building can be seen.
The first part of the twentieth century was the heyday for the department store in New Zealand. The iconic department store, Hays, was a ‘household name’ in Christchurch from its incept…
The most beautiful quadrangles lead to the Botany and Physics Department and Observatory of the Canterbury College, University of New Zealand in 1919. In 1873 the Provincial Council passed the Cant…
“Of all the beautiful places in New Zealand – Christchurch is one of the prettiest. As the metropolis of the Canterbury province, the city has been built in the old Elizabethan style, …