Akaroa Harbour
Sheltered volcanic harbour on Banks Peninsula, once a busy anchorage for flax traders and whalers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Akaroa Harbour near Christchurch follows the flax trade that made a Ngāi Tahu chief, Te Maiharanui, wealthy at Takapūneke in the eighteen twenties, and a British brig that sailed in during November eighteen thirty offering to do business. It touches Te Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa, a Sydney captain named John Stewart, and what a cargo of flax could buy. Best heard looking south along the eastern shore toward Red House Bay.
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