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Aboard the Aramoana slide show

Take a tour through the Aramoana's public places in this slide show.

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  • Cruising Cook Strait 'sixties-style'
    Cook Strait rail ferries

Keywords

cook strait
ferries
shipping
Credit

Cook Strait seaway, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1968

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'Aboard the Aramoana slide show', URL: /media/interactive/cook-strait-seaway, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 24-Sep-2014

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