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• Endeavour Inlet and the Antimony Mine

  Endeavour Inlet was so named by Captain James Cook[ship-cove-and-captain-cook/] after his ship Endeavour, which anchored in Queen Charlotte Sound in 1770.  At the time this, and other bays near...

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• State housing in Nelson

  State housing in New Zealand, 1905-16 In 1905 The Workers' Dwellings Act was passed to allow central government construction of houses for workers on Crown land, appropriated under...

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• New and altered geographic names of Te Tau ihu

  On 1 August 2014 a number of new or altered geographic names took effect as a result of the following Treaty Claims settlements: Ngāti Apa ki...

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• Murchison and the Buller

  Murchison’s story and the Buller River and its tributaries are inextricably entwined.  The mighty Buller begins its 177 km journey to the West Coast from the Nelson Lakes National...

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• Sunnyside and the Fells

  The house called Sunnyside, located in Nelson's "dress circle[http://www.theprow.org.nz/]", and completed in 1854, was built for Alfred Fell, a prominent, mid-19th century Nelson citizen. The house forms the basis...

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