1848: Captain Stokes: On Maori Language
By AHNZ
Today in history: Captain John Lort Stokes came again to New Zealand, arriving 7 November 1848. This time he was aboard the impressive HMS Acheron which along with sail had a lovely paddle-wheel making it a fitting craft to update the surveys of Captain Cook. Previous post: Admiral John Stokes Previous Post: Stokes Point Stokes had already published […]
Read more..November 6, 2018
1848: Admiral John Stokes
By AHNZ
Captain Stokes (later promoted) did a great deal for New Zealand in the service of the/our Royal Navy. His Star Trek-like four year mission: To chart our coasts, settle disputes with Maoris and settlers, and to boldly record New Zealand’s natural resources. Between 1848–1851 the crew of the HMS Acheron must have been a great help to […]
Read more..August 27, 2018
1853: Stokes Point
By AHNZ
The Stokes’ Point District is no more and even the locality re-named to ‘Northcote’ in the 1880s. Once the hub of a busy ferry terminal and the gateway to the North Shore and the rest of New Zealand beyond, Stokes Point isn’t much more now than a place to drop the northern end of the […]
Read more..August 26, 2018
1835: The Voyage of the Beagle
By AHNZ
Today in history, 21 December, 1835, the voyage of the HMS Beagle brought her to New Zealand. Captain Robert FitzRoy is famous to us as our second Governor. ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written about the ship’s scientific expedition and the text launched the renown of Charles Darwin. The previous captain of the Beagle […]
Read more..December 21, 2021
2010s: “10 Decolonisation Skills for Non-Maori Kiwis”
By AHNZ
Jenny Rankine’s meme has been doing the rounds again lately. A University of Auckland academic specialising in internet racism to the point where we may soon have to address her as Doctor Rankine¹. Serious instructions? Or another meme created by people to advertise/signal what they already do: Look at me! Jenny says ‘understand the treaty’ […]
Read more..July 13, 2019
1700s: Slave New Zealand
By AHNZ
I’ve been thinking about this True Political Spectrum graph. It’s pretty good. However, I’d reserve 100% for another segment of the wedge to the left of total power: Tribalism. All powerful, all controlling. To live among bickering battering barbarians and then to have Alexander the Great come along and Empire-up your town would be a […]
Read more..April 13, 2019
1848: The Acheron Survey
By AHNZ
7 November, 1848: HMS Acheron arrived in New Zealand under Captain John Lort Stokes. Between 1848 and 1851 she made a coastal survey of New Zealand, the first such survey since Captain Cook. Earlier in the 1840s, as acting captain of Beagle, he had visited New Zealand (and Australia) and his surveys led to his […]
Read more..February 28, 2019
