Wellington is mountainous and steep. 

What you call mountains we call hills and what you call hills are more like mounds to us

I studied in Wellington and you’re not wrong about how steep it is. 😂 I lived in a house pretty much on the side of a cliff. It had its own personal cable car to get to it.

The glass lift from the to lambton quay is a quick and easy shortcut. When i was a schoolboy me and my friends used to throw paper darts from the ledge by the smokers section (which in 2021 is right outside the Canadian consulate) of what was then the trustbank tower onto Lambton quay below

The area from Courtney Place, Manners Street, Willis Street, Lambton Quay and Thorndon Quay to the sea was all reclaimed, starting in the 1800's with picks, shovels and horse drawn carts and ending recently with large tip trucks. The Basin Reserve and Te Aro flats, which was swamp land was raised by around two metres in the 1855 earthquake, similarly the land that the Hutt motorway is on, along with parts of Kilbirnie and Lyall Bay. The area from Rongotai Road to Evans Bay, and the south end of the airport in Lyall Bay was all reclaimed in the 1950's when a hill was bulldozed in to the sea (28 Hectares) to build Wellington Airport. It was the largest earthworks in NZ at the time, something like 44 million cubic feet of soil was moved.

That land in Wellington was "reclaimed" in the 1855 Earthquake, the whole area rose over 2 meters. The plaques say "shoreline 1850"

I'm from Wellington and it's great that I recognise everywhere you're filming =)

Could you go to dunedin and climb the worlds steepest street

1:15 not so much reclaimed as a whopping big earthquake raised the harbour by like 3 metere and thats why is you go to the bnz building and look down youll see a ship :)

You definitely don't want to be in Wellington when the next major earthquake hits because there will be a LOT of landslides there.

It's always hilarious when you hear the phrase "God ain't making any more land" (hello Oprah). Maybe not, but mother nature has a habit of raising a heap of it with earthquakes! Eg: a good portion of the central city is from seismic up-lift as was the Rongotai area that gives access to the suburb of Miramar in South Wellington.

I'm studying at Victoria university this year and have a broken femur 😂 needless to say navigating the hills gets tiresome but I love Wellington

Mother nature did most of the reclaiming of land through earthquake uplifts.

Ah ha ha ha mountains

While Wellington is good, Christchurch is better