MAP
[Creator unknown] :Map shewing military operations in the South Auckland Dist. & Waikato Valley 1863-70 [copy of ms map with annotations]. 1863-1870
- Date
- 1863 - 1870
- Reference
- MapColl-832.14hkm/1863-72/Acc.24350
- Description
Military map showing operations from the Auckland Fort Britomart Albert barracks, south along the military route to Cambridge, Aratitaha and Tokanui, Waikato District. Depicts military blockhouses, redoubts and forts (five in the Waikato region and over eleven in South Auckland), stockages, routes used on garrison duty only, engagements, Maori pa and kainga and the confiscation boundary as gazetted 17/12/1864 including the aukati (frontier) line.
Also shows mission stations Waipa and Taupiri and geographical features, most with Maori placenames.
Identifies battle sites at several places including Hairini (22.2.64), Rangiaohia (21.2.64) Kihikihi and Orakau (2.4.64), Waiari (11.2.64) and in South Auckland including Hills Clearing (8.9.63), Koheroa (17.7.63), Meremere (1.11.63).
Several Maori pa and kainga are named, including Tokanui, Te Kopua, Otawhao, Otautahanga. In the Waikato regions a similar number of both redoubts and pa sites are identified.
If distinguishing between the route followed by the troops and the confiscation boundary, refer to original map.
Reference key at bottom of map identifies features of the map.
Other Titles - showing
Other Titles - District
Other Titles - and
Quantity: 1 map(s).
Physical Description: Diazo print, scale [1:253 440], 81 x 62 cm.
- Use/Reproduction
- Photocopying not permitted. Reproduction for publication requires the permission of the owner of the original.
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 map(s), Maps, Diazo print, scale [1:253 440], 81 x 62 cm.
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