Story: Chatham Islands

More links and websites

• Chatham Islands Council

  The Chatham Islands Council is the local authority for the Chatham Islands.

• Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust

  The website of the Chatham Islands Enterprise Trust.

• Hokotehi Moriori Trust

  Information on the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands.

• Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri Iwi

  The website of Ngāti Mutunga on the Chatham Islands.

• The occupation of the Chatham Islands by the Maoris in 1835: part I: the migration of Ngatiawa to Port Nicholson

  Part one of a series of articles by Alexander Shand, originally published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1892.

• The occupation of the Chatham Islands by the Maoris in 1835: part II: the migration of Ngatiawa to Chatham Island

  Part two of a series of articles by Alexander Shand, originally published in the Journal of the Polynesian Society in 1892.

More suggestions and sources

• Holmes, David. My seventy years on the Chatham Islands. Christchurch: Shoal Bay Press, 1993.
• Hunt, Frederick. Twenty-five years’ experience in New Zealand and the Chatham Islands: an autobiography. 2nd ed. Wellington: William Lyon, 1866.
• King, Michael. A land apart: the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. Auckland: Random Century, 1990.
• Miskelly, Colin, ed. Chatham Islands: heritage and conservation. Rev. ed. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press in association with the Department of Conservation, 2008.
• Richards, Rhys. Whaling and sealing at the Chatham Islands. Canberra: Roebuck, 1982.
• Richards, Rhys, and Bill Carter. A decade of disasters: the Chatham Islands from 1866 to 1875. Wellington: Paremata Press, 2009.