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First chart published in New Zealand, Hocken Library (2 o 2)

This 1841 chart of Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour), by New Zealand Company nautical surveyor Edward Main Chaffers, is the first map or chart printed and published in New Zealand. Many copies were sold, but Thomas Hocken's is the only one surviving. Chaffers surveyed the harbour over five days in 1839. Two other versions of the chart were published in England and Australia in 1840.

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Hocken Library, University of Otago
Reference: S13-198a

Permission of the Hocken Library Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, must be obtained before any re-use of this image. Further information may be obtained from the Library through its website.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Julia Millen, 'Libraries - Research libraries', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/41636/first-chart-published-in-new-zealand-hocken-library (accessed 26 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Julia Millen, i tāngia i te 22 Oct 2014