Akaroa
French-flavoured harbour village in a drowned volcanic crater, with a dark colonial-era past.
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This guide to Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch, turns on a November week in eighteen thirty, when the British brig Elizabeth anchored in the harbour with Captain John Stewart at the helm and a hold waiting for flax. It follows a Ngāi Tahu chief, Tama-i-hara-nui, invited aboard to talk trade, and the feared war leader Te Rauparaha. Best heard on the waterfront, looking along the shore towards Green's Point.
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