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Kōrero: Law of the foreshore and seabed

The ‘Queen’s chain’

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The ‘Queen’s chain’

The fact that about 30% of the nation’s coast is not publicly accessible, despite the belief in a ‘Queen’s chain’, is pointed out in this cartoon from 1990 by Garrick Tremain.

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Garrick Tremain

by Garrick Tremain

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Mark Hickford, Law of the foreshore and seabed – Public access, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/cartoon/8535/the-queens-chain (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Hickford, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 January 2015.