Places

Date: 1876

By: Climie, James Daniel, 1849-1928

Reference: MapColl-832.45cba/1881/Acc.28697-8

Description: Original survey plan showing topographical features divided into grids from Mangaroa and Manganui Creek eastwards to Mt. Heal and southwards to Ash Hill. Shows blocks 2-3, 6-7, 10-11, Mangahao Survey District. Includes roads, Maori tracks, Baker's tracks and contour lines. Features the Mangaone Stream with various named creeks, and the Coach Road near the Hawera trig point. Accompanying map is a log of the Mangahau Survey District, Blocks XIV-XII, sheet 2, (see MapColl-832.45bf/[ca. 1881]/Acc.28698). Map edges have been trimmed. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Signature of E. Bellairis and date 28.1.81; Verso - centre right - Signature of M? or Nat? Baker in pencil Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). 1 survey log. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, part coloured, scale [1:31 680], 54 x 35 cm.

Date: 1940s

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

By: Oliver, Robin Langford, 1921-2001

Reference: PA1-o-010

Description: Album of black & white photographs, chiefly of geological formations, with some group photographs of members attending the 7th Pacific Science Congress in 1949. Several images by R L Oliver show an eruption on Mount Ruapehu, probably in 1945, with views of the tholoid in the crater, later views showing vents appearing, and finally the engulfment of the larger part of the tholoid by enlargement of the major vent. Other images include one of Tuna Bay delta in the Marlborough Sounds, shell-beds, group photographs of members of the geological section attending the Pacific Science Congress in 1949, and photographs of White island, including one aerial photograph.

Reference: MapColl-832.45bf/[n.d.]/Acc.36732

Description: Survey map of part of Block 3, Mount Adams Survey District, on the southeast coast of Wairarapa, between Mt. Adams and the Tutu trig station. Includes survey measurements, markings and annotated survey notes written on map. Depicts block parts 214-6, 224-6, 230. Refer to NZMS 13, WN 92, Mt Adams Survey District, (Wgtn : Department of Lands and Survey, 1923) for exact locality of map. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on dressed linen, part coloured, scale [1:7 920], 74.3 x 77 cm.

Date: 1942

By: New Zealand. Army; Litt, Rod (Lance Bombardier), active 1942

Reference: MapColl-832.47a/1942/Acc.37209; 12718

Description: Topographic map of the Rimutaka Ranges, immediately north of Featherston southwards to Baring Head, Wellington Region. Names rivers, streams, creeks, roads, the Petone to Featherston railway line, mountains, trig points, foot tracks, ridges, cliffs, bluffs, Lake Oneke and Lake Wairarapa, Martinborough and Featherston. Has grid pattern marked in yards. Acc. 37209 has watercolour annotations (blue for water, green for bush and brown for roads). Acc. 12718 has text (pencil) annotations, (and no watercolour annotations), on top left and in the middle of the map (difficult to decipher). Other Titles - [New Zealand Army] :Rimutaka Range [map with ms annotations]. Compiled at CMD Head Quarters by Lance Bombardier R Litt, September 1942. Quantity: 1 map(s) (2 copies). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, part coloured, scale [ca. 1:63 360], 58.6 x 95.4 cm.

Date: 1871 - 1874

By: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-1922

Reference: MapColl-832.41cba/1871-74/Acc.17446

Description: Topographic map of southern Kaimanawa and the northern Ruahine Range, based on surveys by Percy Smith. Shows Ohauku, Taruarau, and westwards to the Whangaehu and Waitangi rivers. Peaks and rivers are named. Same-size photocopy, location of original unknown. Catalogue card states information supplied by A G Bagnall. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [ca. 1:130 000], 54 x 55.6 cm. Provenance: Based on surveys by S. Percy Smith, 1871-2.

Date: 1905

From: Te Whaiti family : Collection

By: Mason & Richmond (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.45bje/[ca.1905]/Acc.27450

Description: Topographic map with surveying details of the area from the Mangatoetoe River, Palliser Bay to the Taonui River and the Aorangi Mountains to Kaiwhiri and Mataopero. Settlements, rivers and peaks are named. Two areas are marked and include the statements "Boundary as claimed by Government". Some handwritten annotations in pencil and coloured pencil include section numbers and acreages, names of landowners - Heemi te Miha, Iraia, Tutu, Piriha Nihor [handwriting difficult to decipher], Kanes. Other Titles - Te Kopi and Waitatuma Blocks Stamped Mason & Richmond, Authorised Licensed Surveyors, Wellington Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on dressed linen, coloured, 97.3 x 64.5 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS Group 0805. Processing information: Combined into ATL-Group-00753, September 2022.

Date: 1889 - 1890

From: Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931 :Maps from papers

By: Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931

Reference: MapColl-834.47cbad/[1889-90?]/Acc.1329

Description: Hand-drawn plan principally showing a survey of the Hooker Glacier. The map also shows part of the Mount Cook Range including Mt Wakefield, Mt Mabel and Mt Rosa, the Mona, Noeline, Empress and Sheila Glaciers and part of the Tasman Glacier. Gives topographic features and also indicates the track taken by Mr Sealy in 1867 and the position he reached as well as the position reached by J H Baker in 1889. Some vegetation marked. with Mona, Noeline, Empress and Sheila Glaciers shown. Given the source of the map it is assumed that Brodrick is the surveyor, the other possiblity being J H Baker. Brodrick was responsible from 1887-92 for surveying the pastoral runs in South Canterbury and in the course of this work mapped a large portion of the eastern side of the Southern Alps from the Rangitata to the Hunter Rivers and extensive observations of the behaviour of the glaciers in the region. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on dressed linen, coloured, 54 x 38 cm. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts February 1965. No details exist in Manuscripts inventory about what was transferred. These maps had 'ms from Brodrick papers' noted on the Cartographic Catalogue cards. - From Manuscripts & Archives - Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931. Papers. Reference - MS-Papers-0068.

Date: 1888

By: Cussen, William, 1849?-1901

Reference: MapColl-832.17cba/[1888]/Acc.35736

Description: Topographic map of the area from Ruapehu to the junction of the Wanganui and Whakapapa rivers to Lake Taupo and the Tauranga - Taupo Road, then following the Waikato River to the Moawhango River. Includes Moawhango (Erewhon) and Karioi and part of the North trunk railway line. All rivers and streams are named. Includes Lake Taupo, Lake Rotoaira and the Rangipo Desert with sites of two camps, one having a water supply. Named settlements are referred to a reference key. Includes the mountain range of Ruapehu, Ngaruhoe and Tongariro and a second range which includes Pihanga, Kakaramea and Kaharua, all with heights in feet. Roads and tracks are marked, some with distances from Tokaanu, referred to in a reference key. Hot baths and Blake's Hotel are marked at Tokaanu. A note states that Te Heuheu is buried at Waihi, and at a point further north L.M. Grace's house is marked. Two sites of campsites are marked, one with water, near the ran The inscription of 'G.B. Thomas Sr. 16-8-88' is written on the bottom left corner. 29.10.79 is written on the bottom right corner. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on dressed linen, coloured, 50.8 x 43.5 cm.

Date: 1892 - 1893

By: Sharbau, Henry, active 1860-1904; Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Struthers, Jean Boag, 1899-2002

Reference: MapColl-834.47cbsf/[1892]/Acc.4849

Description: Hand-drawn map drawn by H Sharbau of the Southern Alps published as a lithograph entitled 'The central portion of the Southern Alps of New Zealand compiled from the government survey with additions by A.P. Harper and others' and which accompanied an article by A.P. Harper entitled 'Exploration and character of the principal New Zealand glaciers' in 'Geographical Journal, 1893, 1: 32-42. Map facing page 96 See two draft lithographs with ms annotations which show changes by A.P. Harper to this original for the final lithograph published with his paper. MapColl 834.47cbsf/1892/Acc.4843 and Acc.4845 Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, coloured, 53 x 47.7 cm. Provenance: Mrs Struther's house had been earlier occupied / owned by A P Harper.

Date: 1957 - 1959

By: McComish, James Cox, 1906-1990; Stewart, C W, active 1957

Reference: MapColl-832.17gbbg/1959/Acc.36953

Description: Drawn on a published map of the Crater Lake to Happy Valley which is sectored for search and rescue purposes. The annotations depict the Rock Garden chairlift runs, the T-bars, Cinder and Knoll Ridge runs, and the Glacier and Restful Rock runs. Revised by JC McComish Dec 1959. Annotated signature of JC McComish 1.12.1959. Base map: 'Northern slopes of Mt. Ruapehu' Survey by CW Stewart and JC McComish. ([Auckland], [s.n], 1957). Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, part coloured, scale [1:19 200], 66 x 88 cm. Transfers: From the Dollimore Collection..