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Date: 1916

By: New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey. Wellington District Office; New Zealand. Department of Lands and Survey; Archives New Zealand

Reference: MapColl-832.47cba/1916/Acc.37816

Description: Topographic map of Kapiti Island with some described features and named vegetation. Includes the site of an anchorage adjacent to Motungarara Island and Kapiti Island. Ink blotches obliterate parts of the map Kapiti Island includes numerous Maori placenames and named streams. Pa sites and former Maori settlements are marked, as are whaling stations and a cavern, formerly a burial ground. Sites of mutton birds are marked as are water supplies, walking tracks, the site of an old homestead and old cultivations. Tokumapuna Island, 1.2.21 [acres] includes the site of the main whaling station and named rocks which are covered at high water are named. Motungarara Island, 3.2.0 [acres] includes the site of a former whaling station Tahoramaurea Island, 3.3.21 [acres] includes the site of Mayhew's store 442 is written in each of three corners of the map Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, scale [1:70 000], 70.1 x 75.5 cm.

Date: 1880

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.47a/1880/Acc.12466

Description: Topographic and cadastral map, with some survey information, of Kapiti Island showing six subdivisions. These are named as Waiorua - Kapiti No. 5, Rangatira - Kapiti No. 4, Kapiti No 4a, Kaiwharawhara - Kapiti No. 3 - 375 [acres], Maraetakororo - Kapiti No. 2 - 757 [acres], Te Mengi - Kapiti No. 1 - 34.1.9 [acres], Grant to Mr A. Brown - Special Grant No. 10 - 617 [acres]. A public reserve is marked in the Rangatira section with an added note - The Kapiti Island Public Reserve Act, 1897 Kapiti Island includes numerous Maori placenames and named streams. Pa sites and former Maori settlements are marked, as are whaling stations and a cavern, formerly a burial ground. Fields and sites of mutton birds are marked Tokumapuna Island, 1.2.21 [acres] includes the site of the main whaling station and named rocks. Motungarara Island, 3.2.0 [acres] includes the site of a former whaling station Tahoramaurea Island, 3.3.21 [acres] includes the site of Mayhew's store Stamps on bottom right corner: O.C. WD 484 Handwritten note on bottom left states: Mounted: St.J.C. Feb 1935 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Negative photostatic copy, scale [1:15 840], 44.5 x 44.1 cm.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Great Britain. Hydrographic Office

Reference: MapColl-832.47aj/1841/Acc.37820

Description: Hydrographic sketch of safe anchorage on the southeastern coast of Kapiti Island, including Tokomapuna Island and Motungarara and Tahoramorea Islands (named on the map Evan's Island - Whaling Station, Hiko's Island and Raupero's Island). Shows soundings and Rangatira Point. Other Titles - Charles Written on map: 'Copied from a MS [manuscript] belonging to the New Zealand Company April 3rd, 1847'. Written on map: 'This is a convenient anchorage for vessels bound for Port Nicholson, should they be caught by southerly winds in the narrows of Cook Strait...' The description goes on to explain a safe approach to between Kapiti and Port Nicholson and also from Kapiti to the Whanganui River. Written on map: 'L5862, New Zealand folio 1', [Hydrographic Office, where original is held]. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 43.5 x 44.7 cm.

Date: 1850 - 1855

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-012

Description: A view of small islands close to Kapiti Copy of a pencil and wash drawing (115 x 157 mm), signed W.S. & M.M., which is a copy by Mary Marshall of an original by W Swainson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm

Date: May 1939-Oct 1940

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-006

Description: Correspondence and notes about whaling and sealing, and whaling stations throughout the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Considerable correspondence relating to Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and Peraki whaling activities. Some notes about Kapiti and surrounding districts. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1940-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-007

Description: Various papers, much of which are copied from the Old Land Claims series - National Archives. The evidence relates to whaling and sealing operations throughout New Zealand giving details of whalers, their stations, and the Maori communities they interacted with. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-081-4

Description: Part of the southern end of Kapiti to the right, with a small ship anchored in the distance between the two off-shore islands Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink , 74 x 129 mm

Date: [ca 1890]

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of hunters on Kapiti Island

Reference: 1/2-002797-F

Description: Scene on a beach at Motungarara Island circa 1890, showing an unidentified man, almost certainly one of the elder sons of Utauta and Hona Webber, and the wreck of a boat and whale bone. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "Probably Webber family" Motungarara was the residence of the Ngati Toa chiefs Te Rangihiroa and his nephew Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi. The island was fortifed in 1839 to repel attack from the Ngati Raukawa during the battle of Kuititanga. The Webbers are descended from Te Rangihiroa. Tahoramaurea was one of the residences of Te Rauparaha, who was living on the island when Bishop Octavius Hadfield for met him in 1839. Both are small off-shore islands of Kapiti Island. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1872

By: Wyles & Buck (Firm)

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1872/Acc.6371

Description: Surveying map of Tahoramaurea and Tokomapuna Islands and part of Kapiti Island from Ohoko to Te Rere on the eastern side and Maraetakaroro to Te Oneroa on the western side. Includes numerous Maori placenames and notes referring to land claims, such as Kapiti claim No. 2 claimed by Hare Rewette and others. Kaiwharawhara West No. 3 claimed by J. Cootes and others. Rangatira Kapiti No. 4, 1635 acres, claimed by Tamihana te Rauparaha and others. Ngatitoa are referred to in a note about a removal of a [surveying] pole. Creeks are named and the Tuteremoana government trig station is marked. Numerous pencilled notes appear to have been added later. A rough sketch in pencil has been added to part of Kapiti Island to the south of the area drawn by the surveyor, marked as Te Mingi, labelled as Crown Land, granted to David Brown Esqre. Other acreages are: Te Whi Whi and Rakapau 751 acres. Tamiahana Te Ruaparaha, H'oue Te Okorokutia 751 acres. Small blocks of land with boundaries include names: 73 acres Wi Parata, 50 acres Ngatitoa. Handwritten note on verso states: Kapiti plans. Messrs Wyles & Buck, May 1872 Note on bottom left states: Transmitted to the Chief Surveyor of the Province of Wellington this 13th day of May, 1872. Messrs Wyles & Buck. Licensed surveyors, Wellington, 1872. Includes numerous pencilled sums around the map, and a note in bottom right corner which is difficult to read. Notes under the names of Tahoramarea [sic] and Tokomapuna Islands state: See 1 chain plot. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on card, 68.6 x 102.3 cm.

Date: 1843

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-043-4

Description: View from the north-east looking back across Tahoramaurea (Mayhew's Island) with Browns Store on the extreme left of the islet and Te Rauparaha's kainga (settlement) on the right. The right foreground shows Motungarara Island with part of the kainga fomerly occupied by Te Rangihiroa and his nephew Te Hiko, the brother and son of Te Pehi Kupe. Pallisading can seen along the shoreline of Motungarara. Behind Motungarara stands the imposing wooded hills of Maraetakaroro on Kapiti Island. In the background can be seen the South Island. The Bishop Octavius Hadfield's first encounter with Te Rauparaha took place on Tahoramaurea in November 1839. Te Rauparaha was known to have occupied several places continuously, including Tahoramaurea, throughout the 1830s and 1840s. Similarly Motungarara was occupied by Te Rangihiroa, Te Hiko-o-te-Rangi and their relatives during the same period. Shortly after the arrival of Hadfield, and the day after the inter-tribal battle Kuititanga at Waikanae, the NZ Company arrived in the "Tory". During this period Edward Jerningham Wakefield would often stay at Motungarara where he observed that the Maori settlement had recently been pallisaded for fear of attack from the neigbouring Ngati Raukawa following the recent battle. Other Titles - Kapiti Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, in sketchbook, 53 x 148 mm