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As more whaling ships visited the Bay of Islands for rest and recuperation, a growing number of traders and grog-sellers set up business to cater to the demand. This 1846 lithograph, ‘Mouillage de Korora-reka (Baie des Iles)’, was based on a watercolour painted by the surgeon on the French corvette Astrolabe. It shows the extent of shipping traffic and onshore housing at Kororāreka (Russell) by 1840.
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Hocken Collections, University of Otago
by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier after Louis Le Breton
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