Story: Wairarapa region
The New Zealand Company’s chief surveyor, William Mein Smith, made this painting of the dramatic triangular rock face east of Ngāwī, on the coast of Palliser Bay, around 1850. It was named Ngā-Rā-o-Kupe (Kupe's Sails) after the early Polynesian explorer.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: E-011-f-004
Watercolour by William Mein Smith
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.