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Immigrants from Cornwall

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In this extract from a 1997 interview, a Cornish museum director explains why Cornwall sent such a large number of people to New Zealand between 1840 and 1880.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: Prone places and crossings [videorecording]. Director/Producer, Jock Phillips. Wellington: Te Papa Productions, 1997.

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Terry Hearn, English – The flow from England’s south, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/1912/immigrants-from-cornwall (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Terry Hearn, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.