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Moriori population of the Chatham Islands, 1800–1920

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This graph illustrates the sudden dip and continuing decline in the Moriori population after 1835.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Michael King, Moriori: a people rediscovered. Auckland: Viking, 1989

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Denise Davis and Māui Solomon, Moriori – The impact of new arrivals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/1691/moriori-population-of-the-chatham-islands-1800-1920 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Denise Davis and Māui Solomon, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.

Comments

samuel welsh
22 November 2010
terrible loss for all nz