1803 in New Zealand

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With the lessening of the sealing rush at Bass Strait as the rookeries become thinner, sealers return to Dusky Sound and explore the surrounding coast. Little of the activities of these ships is actually recorded as a veil of secrecy still surrounds their activities while the various ships try to make the most of any discoveries before the competition arrives. They occasionally met local Māori but little information regarding these encounters survives. There are again around half a dozen whalers off the north-east coast of New Zealand, a few of which call into the Bay of Islands. The first Māori to join a whaling ship, and possibly the first to leave New Zealand in 10 years, does so early in the year.[1]

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  • 1 June – The Alexander, Captain Robert Rhodes arrives in Port Jackson with Teina aboard. He is the first Māori recorded to have left New Zealand since Tuki and Huru in 1793. Teina may have been related to Huru[1] while the Sydney Gazette reports that Tuki spoke with the Alexander, possibly when it visited Doubtless Bay.[1]
  • 19 September – The Alexander leaves Port Jackson to return Teina to New Zealand. He has stayed with Governor King while in Sydney and has been given gifts to take back with him, including pigs.[1]
  • December – HMS Scorpion, Captain William Dagg lands in Dagg Sound. [1][2]

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  • Philip Tapsell (born Hans Felk) visits New Zealand for the first time, on a whaling ship (possibly the Alexander) which calls at the Bay of Islands.[3] (See also 1823, 1828 and 1830).

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. ISBN 0 670 87787 5.
  2. ^ Wises New Zealand Guide,7th Edition, 1979. p.80.
  3. ^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Tapsell Biography

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For world events and topics in 1803 not specifically related to New Zealand see: 1803