MAP
[Creator unknown] :[Sketch map of country around Gate Pa, with scouting tracks and battle sites] [ms map]. [1864?]
- Date
- 1864
- Reference
- MapColl-832.16hkm/[ca.1864]/Acc.1869
- Description
Hand drawn military map of the area from the Waimapu River, including the Tauranga-Rotorua Road to Okauia, Irihanga, Wairoa River and Tauranga Harbour. Includes roads and tracks, one of which is marked as 'my scouting track - there and back close on forty miles'. Gate Pa is marked, settlements, rivers and some roads are named. Scenes of action are marked as crossed swords and some battle sites are named - Gate Pa, Te Ranga, Oropi, Waehi, Whakamarama. Directional arrows point to Rotorua and Okauia. Includes some hachures, sites of clearings and a location of a house.
Title partly taken from the pencilled heading, believed to have been added at a later date, and the catalogue card.
Pencilled title of map is written along the top edge and on reverse: [Sketch map of country around Gate Pa ... ca. 1864] believed to have been added at a later date.
Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s).
Physical Description: Ink, pencil, coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 19.7 x 21 cm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Neg. C14054. Aperture card available
- Use/Reproduction
- Photocopying not permitted
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 manuscript map(s), Manuscript maps, Military maps, Ink, pencil, coloured pencil on paper, linen backed, coloured, 19.7 x 21 cm.
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[Creator unknown] :[Sketch map of country around Gate Pa, with scouting tracks and battle sites] [ms map]. [1864?]. Ref: MapColl-832.16hkm/[ca.1864]/Acc.1869. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22862989More information can be found in our terms of use.