An expedition records Pukerua and the coast towards Kāpiti
A published expedition report describes potato cultivations near Pukerua, a pā near the coast and travel onward towards Pari Pari. It also mentions Captain Daniell’s whaling station near Porirua. The passage provides a first-hand colonial description of routes, settlements and cultivation, but its place-name spellings and descriptions of Māori communities require care and comparison with iwi histories.
Pukerua in a coastal journey
An expedition’s record of Pukerua and the coast toward Kāpiti offers an overland perspective on the same landscape described from ships and whaleboats. Routes and settlements become visible in different ways depending on how an observer travelled.
The wider geography
Pukerua, Paremata, Mana and Kāpiti form a connected coastal corridor. The whaling history includes Paremata’s George Toms and stations on the smaller islands.
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- A government report records a surviving try-pot at Waiorua
- KC News Brief History of Kāpiti Coast
- National Library Kāpiti Coast history search
- The Kapiti Coast: Māori Tribal History and Place Names
- Puketapu ki Paraparaumu — History and Living Connections
- The archaeology of New Zealand shore whaling
- Waikanae: Report on Te Ātiawa/Ngāti Awa Claims
- Kāpiti — Blood, Oil and Bone
- Eleven ships off Kāpiti in 1837