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Port Ross settlement

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Port Ross settlement

This watercolour, possibly by Charles Enderby, the leader of the settlement, shows the buildings at Port Ross on the Auckland Islands, which were erected by the Southern Whale Fishery Company to house and provide for more than 200 settlers. The painting was discovered in the possession of a family in Staplehurst, Kent, in 1961.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: A-093-008

by Charles Henry Enderby

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Jock Phillips, Subantarctic islands – The Enderby settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/38546/port-ross-settlement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 28 November 2012.