Venue
Ecology Across the Tasman 2006 will be held in the Maclaurin and Easterfield Buildings on the Kelburn Campus of Victoria University of Wellington. The Kelburn Campus is the oldest of the four campuses that make up Victoria University, and is the original site of Victoria College.
Victoria College was founded through an Act of Parliament in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and named in her honour. The University’s four pioneering Professors – Thomas Easterfield, Hugh MacKenzie, Richard Maclaurin and John Rankine Brown – arrived in the capital in 1899 to take up their duties, and for the first few years, lectures took place in rented accommodation in the city while a debate raged over where the new University’s home should be built. Eventually, the College Council decided to build on ‘six vertical acres’ in Kelburn, the site of the Kelburn Campus today. In 1904, the first stage of what is today known as the Hunter Building was begun, and the building was opened in 1906 by the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Plunket. This historical building is still used for teaching today.
The Kelburn Campus houses principally those Schools which deliver courses in programmes offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science and the Faculty of Science. The venue will be ideal for this conference because of its state-of-the art facilities and historical location, combined with the convivial campus atmosphere, which cannot be recreated in a hotel.
Links to Kelburn Campus Map and Wellington City Map
