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• John Sylvanus Cotterell

  Surveyor, settler, explorer If John Cotterell had not been killed, in the Wairau Affray,  at the tender age of 23, it is likely he would have become a person...

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• Nelson's Signal Station and the Time Gun

  Britannia Heights in Nelson was once known as Signal Hill.  The Songer tree, a Sequoiadendron giganteum, now marks the site from which the state of the tide was signalled to incoming vessels and...

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• Port Museum at Founders Park

  Download MP3 [9 MB] *Numbers in text refer to the numbers on the Location Map below* The Port[port-nelson-timeline/] Museum at Founders Heritage Park[founders-park/] gives an excellent overview of Nelson's maritime history,...

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• Settlement in Stoke

  Stoke was once a swampy area with numerous small streams. When Māori arrived in this area, it was a wetland with numerous streams draining water from the hills...

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• 2019 Tasman Fires

  Redwood Valley 5 February 2019 Photograph of the fire taken from Redwood Valley looking towards Redwood Park 5 February 2019. Photograph provided by Jane Fairs. A series of fires...

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