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Jackson Bay, 2004

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Jackson Bay, 2004

As the scene today suggests, the heavy rainfall and steep bush-clad land at Jackson Bay was soon too much for the settlers.

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by Jock Phillips

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Jock Phillips, History of immigration – The immigrants of the great migration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3993/jackson-bay-2004 (accessed 4 June 2026).

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