Wharves in Wellington Harbour

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Wharves in Wellington Harbour have been essential to the operation of the Port of Wellington and to the development of the city and the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand.

View of Wellington Harbour from Mt Victoria, showing inner harbour wharves. Anticlockwise from top right: Glasgow Wharf, Railway Wharf, Waterloo Quay Wharf, Ferry Wharf (with Eastbourne Ferry Terminal building), Tug Wharf, Queens Wharf. The end of Taranaki Street Wharf can be seen at centre-left, and Clyde Quay Wharf is in the foreground.

Lambton Harbour, by Charles Heaphy. Drawn in 1841

Outer tee c. 1936-1942. Shed 3 in centre, Shed 5 in foreground.

Tripod gantry crane on outer tee

Wellington Harbour Board

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Wellington Harbour Board was the body which formerly managed the shipping and commercial affairs of the port of Wellington in New Zealand. It was constituted in 1880 and was disestablished in 1989.

The former wharf offices seen from Post Office Square.

The dredge Whakarire in the harbour, 1904. Queens Wharf is to the left.

Kupe, Ngahue and Toia. 2007

The container terminal, seen from Whairepo Lagoon.