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If the the beach is not to your liking, consider a tour of the locations of some of the darkest moments in the capital's history.

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They were named: Te Wai-hirere, at the northern tip of Oriental Bay, Te Akatarewa, at the summit of Mount Alfred above Wellington College, and Uruhau, on the eastern side of Island Bay.