Miramar - where/who is it?
And why does this blog attract so many 'Latino' visitors, or does it just look like it?
Time to search (using Yahoo! and XtraMSN - for me Google doesn't connect at work) for Miramar and find out what it means to the world ...
As I've noted before there's quite a few "Miramar"s in the world:
After all that, a specific Kia Ora to all non-Wellingtonians and please, leave a comment as to how you to stumbled here
Time to search (using Yahoo! and XtraMSN - for me Google doesn't connect at work) for Miramar and find out what it means to the world ...
As I've noted before there's quite a few "Miramar"s in the world:
- Miramar, Wellington - NZ: Wikipedia entry
- Miramar, Florida - USA: Wikipedia entry
- Miramar district, Havana - Cuba
- Miramar Reservoir, San Diego - USA
- Miramar - Argentina
(not really sure if this is a 'place' or an 'organisation') - Miramar - Germany
(again, not really sure if this is a 'place' or an 'organisation') - Miramar Beach, Goa - India
- ...
And then I did a search using Wikipedia (why oh why didn't I do this first?). And now I know why so many Spanish visitors fall into this blog:
Miramar, loosely translated from Spanish, means "sea-view".
Which begs the question, is this where the name for Miramar (Wellington) came from? And here's the answer, from the Wellington City Libary:
Miramar means "Behold the sea" or "Wonderful Sea" and was named by the first settler on Watt's peninsula area, resident James Coutts Crawford, who arrived in Wellington in 1840. In 1872 he changed the name of Watt's Pennisula to Miramar.
Miramar was the name of a house built for him by his brother-in-law, Major McBarnett. The original Maori name of the area was Whataitai. On 18 November 1904, the Miramar Borough was formed.
The next set of the links below came from Yahoo!/XtraMsn results before I did the Wikipedia search - in no particular order, the Miramar related (ie, got Miramar in their name somewhere) organisations, people are:
Corporations (of the 'large' type):- Miramar Systems - USA
(now part of Computer Associates - there's a domain up from grabs!) - Miramar Mining Corporation - Canada
- Miramar Real Estate, South Florida - USA
- Miramar Design Studio, Ontario - Canada
(bloody hard site to navigate around!) - Miramar Links: Conference Centre & Golf Course, Wellington - NZ
- Miramar Federal Credit Union, San Diego - USA
- The Miramar Group, Illinois - USA
- Miramar Venture Partners, California - USA
- Miramar Free Zone - El Salvador
Companys, places and people - smaller companies, societies etc:
- Miramar College, San Diego - USA
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar - USA
- Miramar / Pembroke Pines Regional Chamber of Commerce - USA
- Miramar Ski Club, New York - USA
- Miramar Rangers (soccer), Wellington - NZ
- Miramar TaeKwon-Do, Wellington - NZ
- Miramar Orchids, Florida - USA
- Miramar Golf Course, Minho - Portugal
- Miramar Sport (Tennis) Center, Puerto de la Cruz - Teneriffe
- Harcourts Miramar, Wellington - NZ
- Miramar Lake, Chiapas - Mexico
- Miramar - Belly Dance, Virginia - USA
- Miramar Trucks, San Diego - USA
- Miramar Class, Barcelona - Spain
- Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica - USA
- Miramar Bistro, Illinois - USA
- Hotel Miramar - Hong Kong
- Hotel Miramar, San Juan - Puerto Rico
- Miramar Fish Grotto, Santa Cruz - USA
- Miramar Hotel, Waikiki - USA
- Miramar Beach Restaurant, California - USA
- Hotel Miramar - Singapore
- Miramar Mision, Cancun - Mexico
- Hotel Miramar, Sao Tome - West Africa
- Hotel Miramar, Westerland-Sylt - Germany
- Hotel Miramar, Jersey - Channel Islands (UK)
- Miramar, Xiamen - China
- Miramar Hotel, Honolulu - Hawaii (USA)
- Miramar Crouesty hotel, Brittany - France
After all that, a specific Kia Ora to all non-Wellingtonians and please, leave a comment as to how you to stumbled here
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