This watercolour by Alfred John Cooper shows whalers hauling the blubber off a beached whale at Mōhaka Beach, which is 20 kilometres south-west of Wairoa. During the 1840s shore-based whaling spread up the east coast of the North and South islands, and continued fitfully in Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne until the 1860s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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A-235-010
Watercolour by Alfred John Cooper
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