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Featherston, New Zealand : ウィキペディア英語版
Featherston, New Zealand

Featherston (Maori: Kaiwaewae) is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is at the eastern foothills of Rimutaka Range close to the northern shore of Lake Wairarapa, north-east of Wellington and south-west of Masterton.
The town has a population of Featherston has increasingly become a satellite town of Wellington since the Rimutaka rail tunnel opened in 1955; at the 2006 census, 36% of employed Featherston residents worked in the Wellington metro area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/Geographic-areas/commuting-patterns-in-nz-1996-2006/commuting-patterns-in-wellington.aspx )
== History ==
Featherston was originally called Burlings, after the first settler to the area Henry Burling.
The Featherston Military Training Camp was a major training camp in World War I. In World War II it became the Featherston prisoner of war camp. The town gained notoriety in 1943 when 122 Japanese Prisoners of War in the camp were shot (48 dead, 74 wounded), after guards believed they were about to be attacked by the prisoners.

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