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Frank
I’ve seen the mooring described online as Queen’s Wharf and Auckland Wharf.  These are the east and west side of the same wharf.  I don’t think she’s on either of these.  The nearest I’ve got so far is the east side of the small unnamed wharf with her midships at -36.84280 174.77151 .  On W3W, which seems higher definition than Google Maps, you can persuade yourself that you can see the yellow and white ‘don’t drive off the end’ barriers at the end of the wharf.  Her stern must have been left sticking well out. The photographer must have been standing somewhere near ///desire.twist.bright .  Her position is important if we’re ever going to fit in the background on the other side of the bay.  I suspect it’s somewhere near Marine Square and I’m blaming the fact that I can’t find the building on the foreshore on fact that the Ferry Jetty at Marine Square might be a new-build.  I can’t Identify the trees to the east of YWV’s bow either, so I’m still unhappy.

The visit was reported in the Otago Daily Times https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/chinese-spy-ship-slips-auckland . The interesting thing is that the Yuan Wang ships have been dropping into NZ since 2005 with little more than the odd comment than on social media, but now the ‘Big Media’ have got involved their movements are a big story.  I sent references rather than a photograph because I’ve heard that some of these photo agencies have a way of finding out where you live.  My misspelling of conferned in my clue was a hint at the silver fern, NZ’s national plant.  It appears on the sails of earlier Team New Zealand yachts, but not the set in the photo.  DaveP