by Gavin McLean
Some of New Zealand’s earliest ports were little more than a few planks leading into the sea. Others were dangerous – at Hokitika Harbour a ship became stranded on sandbars every 10 days. But some ports thrived and grew. Twentieth-century industrialisation has made wharves an impressive landscape of soaring cranes and multicoloured containers.
Main image: Container cranes at Sulphur Point
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