Three residents enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of life at Wilderland in the early 1970s. Wilderland, on 64 hectares of land near Whitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula, was founded in 1964 by Dan and Edith Hansen. The Hansens had previously lived at Beeville community in the Waikato, but left to set up Wilderland as an anarchist, vegetarian community. Dan Hansen, a mechanic and inventor, was a paraplegic due to an accident at Beeville. After his death in 2006, many Wilderland residents moved away, but from 2009 a small group began working to revive the community.
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Wilderland
Photograph by Ian Baker
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29 April 2012
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