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New Zealand. Oceania. Nation. Longitude: 174.0000. Latitude: -42.0000.

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Account of travels of W Fordyce Brown.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.9773
Scope and Contents

Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.

Dates: 1882-1884.

Journal of Francis Goode Cuningham`s trip to New Zealand, with related news cuttings and two photographs.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13089
Scope and Contents Francis Goode Cuningham`s journal describes an ill-starred venture to export 2000 sheep from Australia to New Zealand, an entreprise which he undertakes with a New Zealand sheep farmer called A.G. Chalmers, who had already secured a station near Otago. Cuningham is to take a half share and see what New Zealand might hold for him in the way of a future. His journal contains many observations about the landscape and geography of parts of New Zealand which had not been properly surveyed....
Dates: March-September 1858.

Journal of James Henderson of Glasgow descibring his voyage to New Zealand on the 'Lady Ruthven'.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14146
Scope and Contents

The journal is comprised of descriptive daily entries including observations on the ship, its crew, and the other passengers in steerage; and a postscript written upon arrival in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Dates: 1877

Two letters of John Salmond from New Zealand on matters relating to emigration and settlement of the Dunedin and Otago areas.

 File
Identifier: Acc.12825
Scope and Contents

Includes transcriptions, supporting documentation and copies of family photographs.

Dates: 1850-1865.