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• Wreck of the Penguin

  The worst shipwreck in New Zealand, during the 20th century, happened in Cook Strait and was of the regular passenger ship taking people from Picton to Wellington.   Penguin...

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• The Brothers Islands and Lighthouse

  Off the north end of Arapawa Island in Cook Strait lie a group of islets known as The Brothers.  In Māori tradition, these are Ngawhatu Kai-ponu: ‘the eyeballs...

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• Sid Harling

  Blenheim mayor and ideas man In around 1950, the Harling family, Sid, Mary Grace and their daughter Wendy, settled in Blenheim, having migrated from Canada. New Zealand was not...

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• Marlborough Aviation

  Imagine the excitement in August, 1920 when Captain Euan Dickson touched down in his Avro 504K, D6243 on a Dillon's Point (Blenheim) farm. He was en route from...

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• Shipping and trade on the Ōpaoa River

  At one time, Picton was described as Marlborough's front door and the Ōpaoa/Opawa River as the tradesmen's entrance, but in the early days of European settlement, river trade was...

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