Story: Early mapping

Map from the New Zealand wars

This sketch map depicts the Koheroa ridges, the site of a battle between Māori and British soldiers on 17 July 1863.

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Reference: MapColl 832.12hkm/1863/Acc.6649

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Melanie Lovell-Smith, Early mapping – Māori and maps of colonisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/10803/map-from-the-new-zealand-wars (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Melanie Lovell-Smith, published 1 March 2009.