Events

Stories about significant, interesting or unusual events which have occurred in the top of the South Island of New Zealand. See related stories on this site: The Wairau Affray Wreck of the Penguin Picton and World War II Dumont d'Urville's Tasman Bay Odyssey Wreck of the Fifeshire Tophouse (murder)

Stories about significant, interesting or unusual events which have occurred in the top of the South Island of New Zealand.

See related stories on this site:

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Flooding on the Wairau Plain

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The first meeting - Abel Tasman and Māori in Golden Bay / Mohua

Memorial to victims of Maungatapu murders

Maungatapu Murders - The notorious Burgess Gang

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New Zealand’s first game of rugby

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The Murchison Earthquake

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The separation of Nelson and Marlborough

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The Southern Cross at Woodbourne

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Wreck of the Queen Bee

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The Execution of the Maungatapu Murderers

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The Great Blenheim Flood of 1923

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Nelson Anniversary Day

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The Tawhiri

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Stranding of the Hawea

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Nelson becomes a City

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Symons Memorial Explosion

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Stranding of the Lutterworth

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Rakaia and the Cut

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The voyage of the SS Lyttelton

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Making the Cut

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RIMS Dalhousie

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The Collingwood fire of 1904

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Nelson and Tasman Floods

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Pelorus Jack

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Seddon Earthquakes of 2013

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