A fleet of whale boats at Te Awhaiti at the entrace to Tory Channel from Cook Strait
A fleet of whale boats at Te Awhaiti at the entrace to Tory Channel from Cook Strait
[1910]
This was the oldest whaling station in New Zealand and the village was the first settled place in the South Island. In 1910 whales were so plentiful that many tonnes of bones from the mammals captured in the bay and in the strait were scattered about the village. The bones were used as studs for sheds and rough buildings and also for fencing. The oldest resident at the time was Mrs Jackson, grandmother of a family of whalers. She had first landed in the bay about 1845
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