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Kōrero: Early mapping

The South Island and Stewart Island

This map was drawn by a group of Māori around 1841, for Edmund Storr Halswell, who was working as a New Zealand Company official in the South Island. Unfortunately Halswell did not name the people who drew it, so it is hard to tell whose knowledge this map records. It is mostly a coastal chart, showing and naming harbours and headlands. Stewart Island is at bottom right.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MapColl-834ap/[1841-2?]/Acc.527

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

Melanie Lovell-Smith, Early mapping – Māori and maps of colonisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/10798/the-south-island-and-stewart-island (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Melanie Lovell-Smith, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.