Jean Batten
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Jane Gardner Batten, commonly known as Jean Batten, was a New Zealand aviator who made several record-breaking flights – including the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
Kingsford Smith's Southern Cross, in 1928
Batten with a Gipsy Moth
Batten after landing in Australia to complete her record flight. She made a point of wearing a white flying suit for the occasion.
Queen Street, Auckland
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Queen Street is the major commercial thoroughfare in the Auckland CBD, Auckland, New Zealand's main population centre. The northern end is at Queens Wharf on the Auckland waterfront, adjacent to the Britomart Transport Centre and the Downtown Ferry Terminal. The road is close to straight, the southern end being almost three kilometres away in a south-southwesterly direction on the Karangahape Road ridge, close to the residential suburbs in the interior of the Auckland isthmus.
View of Queen Street looking south from Fort Street, 2022
Queen Street (c.1889); painting by Jacques Carabain
Looking from Victoria Street East (1880s) across Queen Street (left to right centre) along the south side of Victoria Street West (right)
Lower Queen Street in 1919, with trams, cars and horse-drawn cabs visible.