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‘Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840’

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‘Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840’

Wellington was the third New Zealand Company settlement. This lithograph from a drawing by Charles Heaphy, looking from the Hutt hills towards Matiu (Somes Island), suggested to prospective settlers that Wellington had plenty of flat land around its harbour. This time the added bucolic touches included a farm worker and some pigs in the foreground.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0009

by Charles Heaphy

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – British immigration and the New Zealand Company, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/4001/port-nicholson-from-the-hills-above-pitone-in-1840 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.