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Story: Modern mapping and surveying

Whirinaki Forest map

This 1946 Forest Service map of Whirinaki Forest shows types of vegetation. The colour-coded areas of trees are overlaid on the base map, a topographical map produced by the Department of Lands and Survey.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: MapColl 830gcra/1966-1970/Acc. 9351

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Melanie Lovell-Smith, Modern mapping and surveying – Mapping and surveying, 1950–1980, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/18909/whirinaki-forest-map (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Melanie Lovell-Smith, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 August 2018.