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- Title
- Leaving day - Police checkpoint for Auckland
- Content partner
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Collection
- Te Papa Collections Online
- Description
This photograph was taken through a bus window at one of the boundary checkpoints leaving Auckland during a Covid-19 lockdown period. The spot is the Mercer off ramp on State Highway 1, on the north bank of the Waikato River. The checkpoint was necessary because Auckland was in an extended lockdown period from 17 August to 15 December 2021 due to the emergence of the Delta variant of Covid-19. The photograph was taken by returnee Alan Gibson who had arrived in the country on 11 October 2021 f...
- Format
- Image
- Date created
- 25 Oct 2021
- Creator
- Alan Gibson
- URL
- https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/2031773
- Related subjects
- Boundaries / Police / COVID-19 (Disease) / born digital / digital images / digital imaging / Auckland / New Zealand
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