Story: Capital city

More links and websites

• Parliament’s buildings and grounds

  The parliamentary precinct, on Parliament’s website.

• Wellington – New Zealand’s capital of cool

  Information about Wellington.

More suggestions and sources

• Hamer, David, and Roberta Nicholls, eds. The making of Wellingtown, 1800–1914. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1990.

• Levine, Stephen. ‘What if Nelson had been made the capital of New Zealand?’ In New Zealand as it might have been, edited by Stephen Levine, 59–73. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006.

• Yska, Redmer. Wellington: biography of a city. Auckland: Reed, 2006.