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Kōrero: Tuatara

Statue, Southland Museum

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Statue, Southland Museum

This tuatara statue sits outside the Southland Museum and Art Gallery in Invercargill. Tuatara have been on display at the museum since 1961, and in 1990 a large enclosure was built as part of the facility’s redevelopment. Southland Museum was one of the first places to successfully breed tuatara in captivity, and the reptiles continue to be bred there.

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Southland Museum and Art Gallery

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Charles Daugherty rāua ko Susan Keall, Tuatara – Decline and recovery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14991/statue-southland-museum (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charles Daugherty rāua ko Susan Keall, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.