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Wellington, Wellington Region
Wellington waterfront and Te Aro reclamations, Port Nicholson
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Stoneware ginger beersAlso reported: wine and ales, applied-top beers and stouts, Hamilton and Codd sodas, colonial bitters and schnapps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
colonial bottle era, historically mapped
Extensive 1850s-1880s reclamation. Retrolens covers the area (1936-2005); specific historic town map year unverified, set null.
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