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• Top of the South timeline

  A timeline for the Top of the South - based on our stories pre-1840[#pre1840]1840-1900[#1840]1900-[#1900] c950 A local story[myths-and-legends-of-te-tau-ihu/] tells of Kereopa escaping Kupe[kupe-and-the-boulder-bank/] by causing the Boulder Bank to grow...

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• Place names of Te Tau ihu

  On 1 August 2014, a number of new or altered geographic names took effect as a result of the following Treaty Claims settlements: Ngāti Apa ki...

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• James Wynen

  How James Wynen ended up in a Nelson hotel where he died in 1866 is a mystery.1 But the story of the ‘decent and respectable native of the...

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• Early Jewish Settlement in Nelson

  Jewish traders were recorded in New Zealand as early as 1829 -  probably sealers and whalers[marlborough-sounds-whaling/]. Settlers arrived with the New Zealand Company[new-zealand-company/], established in 1839 by Edward Gibbon Wakefield...

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• D'Urville's Tasman Bay Odyssey

  On a windless day, the view of Tasman Bay from the ridge leading to French Pass seems enchanting but harmless. The battalions of rocks fringing the southern tip...

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