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The ferry Coromel at the wharf of Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, ca 1910
Source: National Library of New Zealand (Alexander Turnbull Library).


A sawmill and wharf structures at Whangaparapara, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, ca 1910.
Source: National Library of New Zealand (Alexander Turnbull Library).

 

 

Flight of the Albatross Movie 1996
World Premiere on Great Barrier Island
Karaka Bay Graveyard
Compiled by Margaret Peacocke, a great-great-grand-daughter of Edward & Annie Paddison.
The Paddison Family

The Sanderson Family

The Le Roy Family

The Cooper Family

Living at Buschs' Beach, Kaiaraara Bay

The Malcolm's Lonely Life on Great Barrier Island Part of a printed booklet of 1904 “My Own Story” in which Emile Monson Malcolm describes the sixteen years the family spent on the island from 1854.
A Pastoral Visit to the Great Barrier Island
from the Journal of the Rev. A. Baker, M.A. (Church Gazette.) March 1881
The Great Barrier Island by A. E. Le Roy
Published in the ‘Journal of the Auckland-Waikato’ 
Issue No. 32 April 1978
Stepping Back in Time on Great Barrier Island by Jim Eagles September 2004

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Kaiaraara Kauri Dam
Three dams were erected from the kauri logs, built across the headwaters of the Kaiaraara Stream, directly below Mt Hirakimata.

NZ's First Airmail Service - the Great Barrier Island Pigeongram
Stamps and blank stamped flimsies available commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the wreck of the S.S. Wairarapa issued by Great Barrier Pigeon Gram Co.

Painting of Kaiaraara & Mt Hirakimata (Hobson)
by George Frederic Allen

SS Wairarapa Shipwreck

Orama Christian Community at Karaka Bay

Dion (Stud) Stellin and Barrier Gold

Girlie Leroy

Alethea Major (nee Lamond)

Don Woodcock - A Reflection: My time on Great Barrier

Flying to Great Barrier with Freddie Ladd in 1971