Pigeon Island/Wāwāhi Waka

Wawahi Waka

Formerly Pigeon Island. Small island in the northern arm of Lake Wakatipu, immediately north of Pig Island.

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Photograph album of a trip to Pembroke, Lake Hawea and Queenstown

Date: 1928

From: Ainslie, Esme Airini Mollie, 1901-1983 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-1292

Description: Photographs of a trip to Pembroke, Lake Hawea and Queenstown, 1928. Inscriptions: Album page - inside front cover - Xmas, 1927. New Year 1928. Pembroke, - Lake Hawea - Queenstown - Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Brown paper covered album 15.9 x 20.7 cm

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :Pigeon Island looking towards the Frankton Arm. ...

Date: 1870 - 1890

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Pigeon Island looking towards the Frankton Arm [187-?]. Pigeon Island [187-?]

Reference: A-029-007-1

Description: Shows a section of Lake Wakatipu, with high bush-covered hills on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 122 x 174 mm

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Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pigeon Island from Minaret Creek. [1872]

Date: 1872

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-009-3

Description: View of Pigeon Island across Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - K Holmes; Recto - bottom left - Pigeon Island from Minaret Creek Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 96 x 157 mm

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Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pigeon Island. [1872]

Date: 1872

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-010-3

Description: A view of Pigeon Island, seen across the lake Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - K Holmes; Recto - bottom left - Pigeon Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 96 x 155 mm

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Nairn album 2

Date: [Circa 1870s and 1880s]

From: Nairn, Douglas, fl 1973 :Photographs of New Zealand and Fiji

By: (W N) Tuttle & Company; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland)

Reference: PA1-o-359

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, taken by various photographers. Some are unidentified, but many are taken by the Burton Brothers, J V (James Valentine), Tuttle & Co, for Simpson & Co., and Hart, Campbell & Co. In the North Island, a large number of photographs show the area around Mount Tarawera before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. There are a number showing the huge deposits of mud and ash which covered the area, with views of the landscape and of ruined buildings, followed by scenes of the Pink and White Terraces, before the eruption. On page 8, there is a view of Ranana (London), on the Wanganui River with the caption, "Maori village similar to those overwhelmed by the eruption". Other scenes in the North Island were taken in Auckland City, Ohinemutu, Rotokakahi, and Whakarewarewa, Ti Eke [i.e. Tieke] on the Wanganui River, and one of Wellington City taken from Mount Victoria. South Island views include many around the main lakes, including Wakatipu, Wanaka, Manapouri, Queenstown and Hawea; Milford Sound and Mitre Peak; the Otira Gorge; Kawarau Gorge and Bridge; Oamaru; Port Chalmers; and Dunedin. Views of gold mining areas in Otago include excavation sluiced out by hydrants at St Bathans, and the miners' towns of Naseby with the river choked with tailings, and Nokomai. Portraits of Maori including Ana Rupene. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with marron leather binding covered with waxed brown-paper cover, entitled `New Zealand photographs, [E?] Nairn'; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

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Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pigeon Island from Mt Thompsons. 9th Jan. [1872]

Date: 1872

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-010-4

Description: Looking down on Pigeon Island from a high point Other Titles - Thompson Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - Pigeon Island from Mt Thompsons; Recto - right of image - 9th Jan Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 96 x 157 mm

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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Pigeon Island. Rabbit [Island. Small craft on lake...

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1875]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-014-q-2-056

Description: Shows a small sailing vessel in Lake Wakatipu water with Pigeon Island and Pig Island, formerly Rabbit Island, mountains in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 170 x 269 mm

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Pigeon Island [187-?]

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Pigeon Island looking towards the Frankton Arm [187-?]. Pigeon Island [187-?]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-007-2

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 122 x 174 mm

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :Opposite the Island, Lake Wakatip, east side. [ca...

Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-007

Description: Bush and rocks in the foreground, the lake, Pig or Pigeon Island noted on the left across the water, and a range of high mountains beyond, probably the Ailsa Mountains Two islands are located at the north end of Lake Wakatipu, near Glenorchy Other Titles - Wakatipu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, page size 98 x 154 mm

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Lake Wakatipu - Pigeons Island

Date: [Between 1880 and 1889]

From: Burton Brothers :New Zealand Through the Camera

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA4-0092

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of Pigeons Island, Lake Wakatipu, taken in the 1880s by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Inscriptions: mat verso - bottom left - New Zealand through the camera. Burton Brothers, Photos., Dunedin, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

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Subject file - General land use issues

Date: 1995-1996

From: Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (Inc): Records

Reference: 2002-052-1/1

Description: Includes correspondence relating to land use issues in Marlborough, Canterbury, Westland, Southland and Wellington Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908 :Coxhead album 3

Date: [ca 1860, 1870s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-328

Description: Album of original sepia prints photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead circa 1860s and 1870s. Views include Lake Wakatipu and environs; various buildings and businesses in Invercargill and Southland, including First Presbyterian Church and Second Presbyterian Church (Invercargill), Kew Sawmills (Southland), the Invercargill Gasworks, Invercargill Post Office and the Albion Hotel. Includes a photograph of a drawing of Oamaru in 1860. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - Photographed by Frank A Coxhead, Invercargill, NZ Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Green cover, 29 x 25.6 cm

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Bage, Freda (Dr), 1883-1970 : Scrapbook

Date: 1906-1907

By: Bage, Freda (Dr), 1883-1970

Reference: fMS-013

Description: Scrapbook kept by Dr Bage on a journey around New Zealand's scenic places, 1906-1907, including a cruise around Fiordland; includes photographs, steamship tickets, programmes, passenger list for S S Waikare (1907), hotel transfers and stickers, maps, ephemera etc. Newspaper cuttings include images of Maggie Papakura, Hamurana Spring, Lake Rotorua, Wai-o-tapu and Porridge Pots at Whakarewarewa. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: 27 cm; ½ black morocco, blue buckram, in gray phase box Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the Women's college, University of Queensland, per Mrs M Budtz-Olsen, Queensland, 1971 (A73-003)