Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/50
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- ...that Baldwin Street (pictured) in Dunedin is reputedly the world's steepest street?
- ...that, because of its aluminium cladding and shape, the Westpac Stadium in Wellington is nicknamed "The Caketin"?
- ...that the 1990 movie Arachnophobia used 374 Avondale spiders, a species first documented in Avondale, New Zealand?
- ...that the Bounty Islands were named in 1788 by captain William Bligh after his ship, just months before the infamous mutiny?
