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  • Taranaki Stories – Richard (Dicky) Barrett

    This exhibition from Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth gives a detailed and well-illustrated account of the whaler Dicky Barrett.

  • Whaling

    The Department of Conservation material provides a brief historical overview of whaling and a fuller coverage of New Zealand’s role in whale conservation.

  • Whaling in early New Zealand

    An overview of whaling in New Zealand in the 1830s and 1840s.

More suggestions and sources

    • McNab, Robert. From Tasman to Marsden: a history of northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818. Dunedin: J. Wilkie, 1914.

    • McNab, Robert. The old whaling days: a history of southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1913.

    • Morton, Harry. The whale’s wake. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1982.

    • Prickett, Nigel. Archaeology of New Zealand shore whaling. Wellington: Dept of Conservation, 2002.

    • Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Adventure in New Zealand. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1845.



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