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Detail of Port Macquarie chart

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Detail of Port Macquarie chart

This closer view of Robert Williams's chart shows patches of flax at the entrance to Port Macquarie, now called Bluff.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MapColl-835at/[1813]/Acc425

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John Wilson, European discovery of New Zealand – Last discoveries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/4441/detail-of-port-macquarie-chart (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2016.