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… Gisborne is situated on the shores of Poverty Bay where the Taruheru and … country inland from the Mahia Peninsula. Kaiti, Mangapapa, Te Hapara, and Elgin are the suburbs. The east coast railway … are in the Turanganui River. Larger vessels use the roadstead. Shipping tonnage handled in 1963 was 92,786 tons, the …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Andreas Reischek was born in 1845 at Linz, Austria, the son of a tax collector – his mother dying soon after his birth. After a few years' schooling he was …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Rochfort was born in Bayswater, London, in 1832 and as a youth served an engineering …
… After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February … factors, the absence of a strong British military force acted as a continued source of provocation to some Maori chiefs. The Maoris were an intelligent and warlike race, organised as tribes, and …
… is 870 ft below sea level. Lake Manapouri is smaller than Te Anau, being 59 sq. miles in area and 18 miles long, but … its extremely irregular shoreline, countless islands, and steep forested mountain ranges, often snow capped, it has earned the …
… the original home of the Polynesians. (This theory is supported by traditional evidence and by language similarities.) These first New Zealanders are called moa-hunters by archaeologists because of their association with this bird. (The term “Archaic” is used in some accounts.) They hunted the …
… houses occupied the end farthest from the entrance gateway. In large villages fences divided the dwellings into … of a common latrine near the edge of a cliff or in some remote spot on the outskirts. Since these villages were sited on hilltops, one must assume from recorded descriptions …
… Waipawa is situated on the northern bank of the Waipawa River, a tributary of the Tukituki River, and on the south-eastern fringe of the Takapau (Ruataniwha) Plain. The northern and western parts of the town are hilly but the remainder, …
… Auckland Peninsula. The river is navigable as far as Tangiteroria and with its major tributaries represents a drowned … the Kaipara Heads the river is flanked to the east by extensive swamps, many of which are now reclaimed and provide … off there in January 1770. At Dargaville, which was named after an early settler, where the river swings west, the …
… sea level, is 1,239 ft deep, and occupies a single elongated glacial trench having a gently sloping flat floor … due to a fill of fine sediments). In contrast to Lake Te Anau, Wakatipu has a more barren appearance because of … of drainage area. It is bordered on all sides by glaciated mountains, the highest of which is Mount Earnslaw near …