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• Rosina Buckman, opera singer

  Rosina Buckman, 1881-1948,  was born in Blenheim, New Zealand, on 16 March 1881, the second child of Henrietta Matilda Chuck, a skilled singer and organist, and her carpenter husband,...

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• Wreck of the Fifeshire

  The Fifeshire was one of the first New Zealand Company immigrant ships to arrive in the Nelson region; on its maiden voyage from London it carried 159 immigrants...

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• Quakers in Nelson - Quakers Acre Cemetery

  The Society of Friends Quakers, from the earliest days in seventeenth century England, hold strongly to the value of peace. When the founder, George Fox, was asked to enlist...

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• The lime and marble of Tākaka Hill

  Tākaka Hill divides Nelson and Golden Bay / Mohua. Its steep, twisting road reveals the ancient craggy lime and marble formations and caving system that give the hill...

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• The Tangata Whenua Tribes of Te Tau Ihu

  There are eight iwi which are tangata whenua in Te Tau Ihu: Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Kuia and Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō are of Kurahaupō waka origins. They were the tangata whenua...

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