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Westland

area 1175 km²/454 sq mi. National park, E South Island, New Zealand; joins the Mt Cook National Park along the main divide of the Southern Alps; glaciers, mountains, lakes, forest; established in 1961; a world heritage site.

The name Westland may refer to:

Places

Westland, New Zealand Westland, Shetland United States: Westland, Michigan Westland, Ohio Westland, Oregon Westland, Pennsylvania Westland, Texas Westland, Virginia Westland (Netherlands)

Other

Westland (Sword of Truth) The Westland is the magazine of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Railway Historical Society (See The Westland, below). Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer. The Westland was an Australian rail service. Westland was the planned Nazi German name for occupied Great Britain and the Netherlands. The unit of the Dutch SS soldiers in Russia were called Westland. The Westland affair was a 1986 British political crisis stemming from the government's ownership of Westland Aircraft.

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