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Hardwicke, New Zealand

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77: 226: 53: 299:, the governor of the company. Two farm sites were chosen, one on Auckland Island and the other on Enderby Island. However crops were difficult to grow because of poor soils, harsh climate and high rainfall. Livestock were hard to muster in the thick scrub. Whaling was also unproductive. Within three years, special commissioners from the whaling company decided to close the settlement as it was too expensive to maintain. 84: 292:, already there, having arrived in 1842. The new colonists compensated the Māori for enough land to build their colony, and then to help clear the forest, build roads and crew the ships, with the chiefs Matioro and Manutere (sometimes called Ngatere) appointed as constables to maintain law and order. 276:
from Britain arrived at Port Ross with the intending colonists, prefabricated houses and bricks with which to build chimneys. The settlers were carefully chosen to establish the new colony. They included women and children as well as farm workers, shipwrights, a surgeon, a civil engineer and other
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It was abandoned in August 1852, after a period of two years and nine months during which five weddings, sixteen births and two infant deaths had taken place. In 1854, the island was also abandoned by Māori, most of whom resettled on
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Dingwall, Paul R.; Jones, Kevin L. (2009). "The Enderby Settlement (1849–52): Archaeological reconstruction of a British Colonial settlement at the Auckland Islands". In Dingwall, Paul; Jones, Kevin; Egerton, Rachael (eds.).
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The Enderby Settlement was the start of the establishment of Hardwicke, the intended ship provisioning and whaling station in Erebus Cove, Port Ross, at the north-eastern end of Auckland Island, close to
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Today all that remains is a cemetery containing six graves: the remains of infant settlers, and three subsequent
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In Care of the Southern Ocean : an Archaeological and Historical Survey of the Auckland Islands
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In January 1850, the settlement was officially named "Hardwicke" after the
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was the name of an agricultural and whaling community set up at
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When the colonists arrived at Port Ross they found a group of
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This colonial settlement was first proposed in 1846. The
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Settlement began in December 1849. Three ships, the
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Abandoned settlement in Auckland Island, New Zealand
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Enderby Settlement
Abandoned settlement
Settlement graveyard, 2011
Earl of Hardwicke
Hardwicke is located in New Zealand Outlying Islands
50°32′40″S 166°12′37″E / 50.54444°S 166.21028°E / -50.54444; 166.21028
Country
New Zealand
Island
Auckland Island
Port Ross
Auckland Island
Auckland Islands
Southern Ocean
New Zealand

Southern Whale Fishery Company
Royal Charter
Charles Enderby
Samuel Enderby
Samuel Enderby & Sons
Enderby Island
Ngāti Mutunga
Moriori
Chatham Islands
Earl of Hardwicke
Stewart Island
Sydney
castaways
Dundonald

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