Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

Kupe followed in his canoe a monstrous octopus called Te Wheke-a-Muturangi across Cook Strait and destroyed it in Tory Channel or at Pātea.

On the other side of the strait, Energy Pacifica has applied for resource consent to install up to 10 marine turbines, each able to produce up to 1. 2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to Tory Channel.

They claim Tory Channel is an optimal site with a tidal current speed of 3. 6 metres a second and the best combination of bathymetry and accessibility to the electricity network.

* 1831: Whaling station established in Tory Channel.

* 2008: Energy Pacifica applies for resource consent to install up to 10 marine turbines, each able to produce up to 1. 2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to Tory Channel.

Tory Channel, a major arm of Queen Charlotte Sound.

Tory Channel is a major arm of Queen Charlotte Sound, and between them they isolate the hills of Arapawa Island from the mainland.

Most of the sheltered part of the route is through Tory Channel, south of Arapawa Island.

Entrance of Tory Channel

Tory Channel is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand.

Tory Channel lies to the south of Arapawa Island, separating it from the mainland.

One of the two candidates for the easternmost point in the South Island ( along with Cape Campbell ) lies at the entrance of Tory Channel.

Tory Channel was surveyed in 1840 and named after the New Zealand Company ship " Tory ", a pioneer ship that brought British colonists to Wellington.

Humpback whales were spotted from the hills at the Tory Channel entrance during their migration through Cook Strait.

Energy Pacifica has applied for resource consent to install up to ten underwater tidal stream turbine, each able to produce up to 1. 2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to Tory Channel.

They claim Tory Channel has tidal flows of 3. 6 metres per second with good bathymetry and access to the electricity network.

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To the east, the Tory Channel, a narrow stretch of water, connects Wellington harbour with the Cook Strait and the open sea ; beyond Tory Channel are the scrubby Eastbourne hills, and the high and forested Orongorongo ranges.

In the 1930s various forms of left wing opposition arose to the Tory dominated council.

It contains his visualizations of different extraterrestrial life forms from various works of science fiction, with information on their planetary location or range, biology, and behaviors, in the style of a real field guide for animals, such as Roger Tory Peterson's guide to birds of North America.

" The Tory dominated Parliament concluded by a substantial majority that, ' the taking of several sums of money annually by the Duke of Marlborough from the contractor for foraging the bread and wagons ... was unwarrantable and illegal ', and that the 2. 5 % deducted from the pay of foreign troops ' is public money and ought to be accounted for.

During its time in office, the Tory government had failed to make any substantial investments in new sources of power.

But just as Catholic Emancipation was brought about by a Tory Prime Minister in 1829, or substantial voting reforms brought about by Disraeli and the Conservatives, thus winning support from a crucial minority of those originally opposed to either, the support of a prominent hardline Protestant leader for Catholic Emancipation might have made all the difference to Irish history.

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

Defoe comments on the tendency to attribute tracts of uncertain authorship to him in his apologia Appeal to Honour and Justice ( 1715 ), a defence of his part in Harley's Tory ministry ( 1710 – 14 ).

This was perhaps in part because Kitchener was thought to be a Tory ( the Liberals were in office at the time ); perhaps due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign ; but most importantly because Morley, who was a Gladstonian and thus suspicious of imperialism, felt it inappropriate, after the recent grant of limited self-government under the 1909 Indian Councils Act, for a serving soldier to be Viceroy.

During the American Revolution the south part of Hempstead was primarily Tory, while the north part, having been settled by Yankees, supported the revolution.

" Macaulay adopted his unfavourable reading of Marlborough straight from Swift and the Tory pamphleteers of the latter part of Anne's reign.

* Murray Foster is the bass player for Great Big Sea and is part of the band Great Atomic Power, with Dave Matheson, Tory Cassis, Mark Mariash and Jason LaPrade.

In part because of the memories of these eras, the Tory party gained a reputation as being anti-Catholic and anti-French and remained substantially weaker than the Liberals in Quebec from the 1890s to the 1980s, with the lone exception of 1958.

Once there he allowed himself to be made the tool of the Tory ministry, whose policy was to carry on the war in the Netherlands while giving secret orders to Ormonde to take no active part in supporting their allies under Prince Eugene of Savoy.

In his later years, Rowse moved increasingly towards the political right, and many considered him to be part of the Tory tradition by the time he died.

He opposed the reactionary measures of the Tory government, supported and afterwards succeeded Samuel Romilly in his efforts for reforming the criminal code, and took a leading part both in Catholic emancipation and in the Reform Bill.

* William Wycherley-The Posthumous Works of William Wycherley, edited by Lewis Theobald ( part of Theobald's and Curll's battle with Pope and other " Tory " wits )

From 1950 until 2010 Formby formed part of the constituency of Crosby, The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.

He had Tory sympathies when he took his seat in the House of Lords, but his views changed, and he began to take an active part in politics as a Whig.

Modelled on the British public schools, throughout the first part of its history the college both influenced and was influenced by government and maintained a reputation as a Tory bastion from its founding.

Most of the members of the legislative council and the executive council were part of the British ruling class, composed of wealthy merchants, judges, military men, etc., supportive of the Tory party.

While M ’ Conechy may have come from a part of the Tory party which did not approve of the Orangemen there were plenty of other Tories who did.

Although still a predominantly Thatcherite grouping, CWF has in recent years, with the decline of the left-leaning Tory Reform Group, become an integral and mainstream part of the Conservative Party.

( Some have suggested that the Tory defeat was due in part to anti-Semitism.

Demands for aid were met with accusations of being the part of a great " Tory conspiracy ," which led King to make his famous " five-cent piece " outburst, alienating a growing number of voters.

Washington especially recommended that agents conceal their reports by using the ink in correspondence: " A much better way is to write a letter in the Tory stile with some mixture of family matters and between the lines and on the remaining part of the sheet communicate with the Stain the intended intelligence.

From 1950 until 2010 Freshfield like the rest of Formby formed part of the constituency of Crosby, The MP for Crosby from 1997 until 2010 was Claire Curtis-Thomas, a member of the Labour Party, prior to her election the seat was generally considered to be a safe Conservative Party stronghold with Tory MPs elected at every election barring the Crosby by-election, 1981 where Shirley Williams of the Social Democratic Party was elected to represent the constituency.