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Auckland, New Zealand

Motukorea Browns Island landing, ferry hulks

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Wreck timberWreck timber
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: midden shell, Maori stone (leave all).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS photo (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Six centuries of Maori occupation, 1840 Brown and Campbell pig farm supplying early Auckland, later farm wharves and ferry hulks dumped in the soft sediment by the landing.

DOC heritage assessment 2006: 68 recorded sites, cone pa, archaic middens, stone pens, wharves and ferry hulks in soft sediment near the landing block, shipwreck remains around the coastView source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

No facilitiesStrong tidal flows in the Tamaki Strait, cattle

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