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Kōrero: South Canterbury region

Timaru whalers’ huts

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Timaru whalers’ huts

In 1839 the Sydney-based Weller brothers established a short-lived whaling station at Timaru. By the time Walter Mantell made this sketch, in 1848, the station was deserted.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-333-006

by Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, South Canterbury region – Early European history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/11331/timaru-whalers-huts (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.