Paremata whaling station
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Paremata whaling station
This engraving shows Joseph Tom’s whaling station at Paremata in the 1840s. The station was visited by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, the son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1845 Jerningham Wakefield published Adventure in New Zealand, which included an account of the whaling communities he encountered in the Kapiti area.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PUBL-0020-05-3
Engraving after a drawing by Samuel Charles Brees
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.
