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Kōrero: Early mapping

Map from the New Zealand wars

This sketch map depicts the Koheroa ridges, the site of a battle between Māori and British soldiers on 17 July 1863. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MapColl 832.12hkm/1863/Acc.6649

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.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

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/10803/map-from-the-new-zealand-wars (accessed 4 June 2026).

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