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Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Great Britain. Admiralty; Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883

Reference: MapColl-834atc/[1849-50]/Acc.1379

Description: Map of South Island, south of Kaikoura and including Stewart Island, and not drawn to scale. Shows harbours, rivers, lakes, Maori tracks, boundaries of the New Zealand Company's land purchase of the Canterbury Region; includes descriptive notes on areas of land such as 'very extensive grass plains'. Note on map before copying: 'Kaiapoi is the southern boundary of the Nelson Block'. Includes many Maori placenames. Written below map: Copy of charts in custody of Admiralty, 1- Canterbury-Otago explorations (1848), 2- Nelson explorations (1846) Title from catalogue card Written on catalogue card: Shows New Zealand Company's purchase of land. See also annotated copy, redrawn by Department of Survey and Land Information, 1989, entitled Map of part of the Middle Island by Charles H Kettle, ca. 1848, shelved at MapColl-834atu/[1849-50]1989/Acc.21689 Inscriptions: top left - Stamped New Zealand Company, 31 Oct 1848 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, glued to paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 53.4 x 31.5 cm Provenance: Photocopy from chart held in custody of the Admiralty

Date: 1848

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: New Zealand Company; National Archives (Great Britain); Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.52gbbd/1848/Acc.46989

Description: Shows Purakanui Bay and inlet and the boundaries of the Maori reserve adjoining these. Gives topographic details such as 'fine beach', 'sandy flat', 'wooded land'. Several areas are marked as 'native gardens' and a pa site and burial grounds are shown. Some Maori placenames are noted. The estimated acreage of the reserve is given. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - New Zealand Company Jan .. 7..50 [stamp] Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca.1:7 920], 52 x 40.5 cm. Provenance: Original stamped 'New Zealand Company'. Handed over to the Colonial Office upon the surrendering of the Company's charter in 1850. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: MapColl-834.48gbbh/1848/Acc.6041

Description: Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, scale 1:316 800, 27 x 38 cm.

Date: 1848

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain)

Reference: MapColl-834a/1848/Acc.46960-1

Description: Copy of hand-drawn map of the South Island from Kaiapoi south to Stewart Island, drawn in 1848. Some topographic features and placenames, several Maori tracks inland and the southern boundary of the New Zealand Company's southern purchase. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 2 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, scale [ca. 1: 1 045 440], 78 x 44 cm. Provenance: From Colonial Office papers, England. Colonial Office material now held by National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom.

Date: 1848

By: New Zealand Company; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Great Britain. Admiralty

Reference: MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.25967-8

Description: Topographical, exploratory map of the western part of the North Island from Taranaki southwards to Wellington, Cook Stait, and the northern part of the South Island, to Hokitika and Banks Peninsula. Shows the Taranaki, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson and Marlborough regions, with placenames, contours, coloured shading and some nautical information. Includes detailed notes about the exploration at the bottom of the map, however this text is not legible. Includes 14 aerial insets on the map, including the harbour of Otago, Port Nicholson, Nelson Haven, Waitohi Bay, D'Urville Harbour, ?West Harbour, Victoria Haven (some illegible), and 14 cross-section insets of coastline areas. See also second copy of map, MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.116 (photographic copy, 34.8 x 42.7 cm), of the middle third of the map only, from Wellington to the Tasman and Marlborough Districts only, with accompanying typed notes entitled 'Key to 1848 exploration of the Nelson District'. Other Titles - Chart of Cook Strait and the recent exploratory routes at the northern end of the Middle Island, New Zealand Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets. Physical Description: Photographic copy, coloured, scale indeterminable, 31 x 21.5 cm on sheets 17 x 25.2 cm