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- Great History - Aotea Great Barrier Island
From the 1840s, the Island’s natural resources attracted European settlement A number of boom and bust industries exploited the Island’s mature kauri forests, minerals (copper, silver, gold) and migrating whales Descendants of the early European settler families still live on Great Barrier Island
- Great Barrier Island - Wikipedia
Great Barrier is surrounded by several smaller islands, including Kaikoura Island, Rakitu Island, Aiguilles Island and Dragon Island
- Great Barrier Island Historic Heritage fact sheet
Great Barrier Island (Aotea) has a rich history dating back to the initial settlement of New Zealand by the East Polynesian ancestors of today s Maori population
- Aotea Great Barrier Island historic heritage survey appendix 1 (p. 1-100)
This theme explores Great Barrier Island’s infrastructure development starting from early settlement through to the middle of the twentieth century The infrastructure on Great Barrier Island is limited and reflects the isolated nature of the island
- Annexure 1a The history of human settlement of the islands
All waka travelling between the Bay of Islands and the Bay of Plenty (and beyond to the East Coast) passed close by Aotea (Great Barrier) and Hauturu (Little Barrier) Here diverse peoples met, fought and periodically displaced or absorbed one another
- About Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Island is a remote, tranquil island 90km north east of central Auckland Located at the edge of the Hauraki Gulf, it is one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
- Early European Explorers – Great Barrier Island History
He did not stop at Great Barrier Island but his journal stated that the Hauraki Gulf was “defended from the sea by a chain of large and small islands which I have named the Barrier Isles” He then sailed north following fairly close to the mainland to the Bay of Islands
- GREAT BARRIER ISLAND | Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Settlement is restricted to scattered clusters on the margins of this rugged island, notably at Port Fitzroy and Okiwi in the north-west, and at Awana, Oruawharo, Okupu, and Tryphena in the east and south
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