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The theme -: New Zealand 1840 and previous to 1840*

The object of this web site is twofold - firstly to provide the story of New Zealand previous to 1840,

a period usually glossed over in standard history books; secondly to  honour the memory of the early participants in the discovery, exploration, and settling of this country. New Zealanders today

owe so much to the men and women named or acknowledged in these pages.

Early New Zealand cartography, navigation,  exploration, discovery, surveying and  artworks.

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Section A

 

New Zealand unveiled (without illustrations.)

Page AYA1 Preliminaries and bibliography - Part A

 

Page AYB1 Sections 1  to 13 - Part B

 

Page AYC1  Section 14 to end -Part C

New Zealand unveiled illustrated   

Page AXD1 Preliminaries and bibliography Part A

 

Page AWG1 Sections 1 to 13 Start of text Part B

 

Page AWH1 Section 14 to 16  Part C

 

Page AWL1 Section 17 to 23 Part D

Section B

 

Explorers' charts and views of New Zealand

Page BZQ1 Preliminaries and bibliography -  Part A

 

Page BZR1 Plates 1 to 19 - Part B - illustrated

 

Page BZS1 Plates 20 to 37 - Part C  - illustrated

 

Page BZT1 Plates 38 to 60 - Part D - illustrated

 

Page BZU1 Plates 61 to 74, references and bibliography - Part E

Section - C

Dictionary of early New Zealand Map-Makers

Page CZM1 Part A Preliminaries and names - Allard to Luffman

Page CZO1 Part B - M to Z and bibliogrophy   McCheverty to Zatta

Section - D

Early New Zealand printed maps

 

Page DYD1 Preliminaries and maps displaying New Zealand's western littoral - Chapter 1

Page DYE1  James Cook's charts and their progeny - Chapter 2

Page DYF1  Vancouver's charts - Chapter  3

Page DYG1 British Admiralty hydrographic charts - Chapter 4

Page DYH1 French printed charts - 18th and 19th century - Chapter 5

Page DYi1 Maps in marine atlases, and charts - Chapter 6

Page DYJ1 Missionary maps - Chapter 7

Page DYK1 Maps by the Wylds - Chapter 8

Page DYL1 Maps by the Arrowsmiths - Chapter 9

Page DYM1 Maps in British Parliamentary Papers - Chapter 10

 

Page DYN1 Maps by Smith, Elder & Co., and in the New Zealand Journal - Chapter 11

Page DYO1 Additional maps first published previous  to 1840 - Chapter 12

Page DYP1 Maps by colonial lithographers - Chapter 13

Page DYQ1 New maps 1840-1847 - Chapter 14

Section - E

Journal of Abel Janszoon Tasman 1642-1643

Page EBA1 Part 1 - Front matter and Tasman's Journal from 14 August to 25 November 1642

Page EBB1  Part 2 - Tasman's Journal from 26 November  1642  to 31 January 1643

Page EBC1 - Part 3 - Tasman's Journal from 1 February to 7 April 1643

Page EBD1 - Part 4 - Tasman's Journal from 8 April  to  15 June 1643 - return to Batavia

Page EBE1  Illustrations associated with the discussion of the journal

Section - F

Polynesian and Māori

Page FAA5  Migrants without descendants

Page FAC2 A sharp rebuttal to "Origin of the first New Zealanders  

 

Page FAD2  Re-invented traditions - a brief note

 

Page FAH1  Tiki,, greenstone data and Māori art 

Page FAO3  Portages of early Auckland

Page FAF1  Did the Māori ancestors deliberately navigate?

Page FXW1 To follow  "Finding Polynesia" (i.e. European explorers)

 

Images of early French attempts at depicting  Māori - scroll down to Section Q

     Section - G

Pacific

Page GXC1  The first traverse of the Pacific -  by Ferdinand Magellan

 

Page GAS1  Jacob Le Maire discovers a new passage to the Pacific in 1616*

Page GWC1  Identifying “Davis’s Land” in maps*

Page GAL1  Down with Bligh - "Hurrah for Tahiti!"*

Page GAB2  Early Portuguese discoveries in the South-west Pacific ?

Page GAP2  European discovery of the Tonga Islands*

Page GAV2  European discovery of the Cook Islands*

Page GAC1 Early Pacific personalities and ships

 

Page GWU1  A selection of Pacific  maps pre. 1700 of interest to Pacific historians

- see Page LXL1 below

 

Section - H

   Discoveries in New Zealand waters

Page HAA4  Early independent and foreign surveyors in New Zealand waters

 

Page HAW1  Did J. R. Kent prepare the Port Nicholson plan in 1826 previously credited to Herd?

Page HAW2  A  new look at the European. discovery and  naming of Port Nicholson.* 

Page HXB1  The Waitemata Harbour unveiled 1820*

Page HWB1 James Cook's secret search in New Zealand waters in 1769*

Page HZF1  An early French encounter with Northland -Spirits Bay in 1772*

Page HAY2  Early New Zealand coastal views by J. R. Kent*

Page HAS2  Identifying James Cook's discoveries in Hauraki Gulf in 1769*

Page HAO1 Identifying Tasman's discoveries in Three Kings Islands

Page HAT1  Thomas  Anderson - little known European discoverer of Waitemata  Harbour

Section - i

Australia

Page iAF2  Hessel Gerritsz - father of the mapping of Australia

Page iAQ1 Did Claudius Ptolemy know about Australia? - (English)

Page iZB1  Ptolémée-connaissait-il l'Australie?*  (Original published French version)

Page iWD1  Finding Australia’s East Coast*

Page iAE1  A brief note on the Tasman-Bonaparte map

Section - J

 Navigation and charts in general

Page JZP1  The development of navigation

Page JAB1  A Multitude of prime meridians

Page JXT1  Faulty coastline long. placement early hybrid maps - (to follow)

 

Page JXU1  Charting of Strait of Magellan by Jan Ourgnersz 1599-1600 - to follow

Section - K

New Zealand maps not directly related to early explorers

Page KZD1 The French contribution to the early charting of New Zealand - Part A*

Page KZE1 The French contribution to the early charting of New Zealand  Part B*

Page KAP1 The Problem of North Cape in maps*

Page KXK1 Official general charts of New Zealand 1772-1885*

 

Page KAZ1 Issues of the McDonnell-Wyld 1834 chart of New Zealand

Page KAY1 Two sets of Tasman longitudes in early maps

Page KAN1 A Plan of  Auckland  circa 1850*

Page KAX2 Felton  Mathew’s  foundation plan of Auckland, 1840* 

Page KAU1 An early Waitangi plan -  The town of Victoria*

Page KXK2   A preliminary list of survey-charts by Thomas Wing (also see Page KAX1))

Page KXK3  The