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Enderby settlement promissory note

This note was used to pay workers at the Enderby settlement at Port Ross in the Auckland Islands. The bearer was promised payment of £1 sterling by the Southern Whale Fishery Company, which had been established by Charles Enderby to develop a major whaling enterprise based in the Auckland Islands.

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Jock Phillips, Subantarctic islands – The Enderby settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/38542/enderby-settlement-promissory-note (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 28 November 2012.