Queen Street
Buried-stream thoroughfare and main retail strip, paved as New Zealand's first asphalt street.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Queen Street in Auckland follows a thoroughfare with a temper: an unemployment march that turned into looting in 1932, and a 1984 concert blackout that spilled ten thousand people into a night of riot police and flying bottles. Underneath it all runs the buried Waihorotiu stream, once a swamp Maori believed was guarded by a taniwha named Horotiu, and the stinking, flood-prone gully that early colonial shops were built along in 1841. Listen near Aotea Square, roughly where that old swamp once pooled.
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