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Waitangi

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Waitangi

Waitangi is the centre of, and only township on, the Chatham Islands. It has government offices, businesses, stores and the island’s main wharf. Most of the town is on the level land at the top of the escarpment that rises behind the shoreline buildings in the foreground in this picture.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 2 February 2005

by Richard Robinson

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Rhys Richards, Chatham Islands – Chatham Islands places, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37815/waitangi (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Rhys Richards, published 28 November 2012, updated 1 May 2015.