Waitangi, Northland
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Waitangi is a locality on the north side of the Waitangi River in the Bay of Islands, 60 kilometres north of Whangārei, on the North Island of New Zealand. Here, two documents pivotal to New Zealand h
Te Whare Rūnanga, the carved meeting house on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds
Elizabeth II in Waitangi, December 1953
James Busby's house at Waitangi
He Whakaputanga
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He Whakaputanga, also known as the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand is a document signed in 1835 by a number of Māori chiefs of the northern parts of New Zealand setting out the independ
Waitangi, Northland
…60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Whangārei, on the North Island of New Zealand. Here, two documents pivotal to New Zealand history were signed: the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand, on 28 October 1835, and the Treaty of Waitangi, on 6 February 1840. Waitangi is close to the town of Paihia, to which it is connected by a bridge near…
The first page of He Whakaputanga
The flag as drawn by Nicholas Charles Phillips of the man-of-war HMS Alligator in 1834