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Biography: Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki

Alistair Campbell and Kāpiti

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Alistair Campbell and Kāpiti

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell looked out at Kāpiti Island from his Pukerua Bay home; the island inspired a number of his poems, notably his sequence on Te Rauparaha. The island forms a brooding backdrop to this portrait of Campbell by photographer Robert Cross.

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Mark Williams. 'Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47426/alistair-campbell-and-kapiti (accessed 4 June 2026).