Ngā Tohuwhenua Mai Te Rangi: A New Zealand Archeology in Aerial Photographs
Te Awaiti, in Tory Channel, site of the first shore whaling station of 1827
Te Awaiti, in Tory Channel, site of the first shore whaling station of 1827
On the far ridge are the pits of a pre-European Maori settlement, possibly occupied also in the whaling era. At the foot of the ridge slope just in from the beach are the depressions of former hut sites, probably part of the whaling station. On the eroding beach front at the far end are the graves of the Toms family (marked by a distinct rectangular patch of light-coloured concrete) and the try-pots. The whole of the flat was settled in the mid-nineteenth century but obvious surface evidence does not show. The view is to the south-west.