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Kōrero: Kermadec Islands

Chart from d'Entrecasteaux's 1793 voyage

This map of Raoul Island, with coastal profiles of potential landing spots and the other islands of the Kermadec group, was prepared in 1793 by French explorer Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni d’Entrecasteaux. Joseph Raoul was the quartermaster of one of the two ships under d'Entrecasteaux's command.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0120-17

by C. F. Beautemps-Beaupre

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

Simon Nathan, Kermadec Islands – Human impact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/37371/chart-from-dentrecasteauxs-1793-voyage (accessed 28 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 28 November 2012.