Gisborne

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Gisborne

(gĭz`bôrn), city (1996 pop. 32,608), East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a resort and a port, exporting wool, frozen meat, timber, and fish. Captain Cook made his first New Zealand landing there in 1769.

Gisborne

a port in N New Zealand, on E North Island on Poverty Bay. Pop.: 44 900 (2004 est.)

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(1985) A body-wave analysis of the 1966 Gisborne, New Zealand, earthquake, Tectonophysics, 113(3-4), pp.

Vulnerability of wastewater treatment plants and wastewater pumping stations to earthquakes/Nuoteku valymo ir pumpavimo stociu pazeidziamumas per zemes drebejimus

Drinks recommendation To balance the spices and syrup, try a New Zealand white with sweet apricot fruit flavours such as Villa Maria Private Bin Chardonnay/Viognier, Gisborne, New Zealand.

Home cooking; Ginger and lemon chicken stir-fry

At 11pm one evening, using VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) the Tees Valley-based personal tutor rang the Gisborne Herald landline in Gisborne, New Zealand, where the journalist was just having her morning coffee.

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Their first son, Jonathon, now 38, and an art teacher in Wales, was born there in 1968, but it was a move in 1971 to Gisborne, New Zealand, which was to ignite Margaret's passion for nutrition.