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Charles Von Huegel journal.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2006/3
Scope and Contents

Journal describing visit to Australia and New Zealand. In German. The annotations are by Reuel Lochore, who used the copy in his translation of Von Huegel's diaries, which is held by the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Dates: 1834

Glynn Barratt collection of research materials relating to the Russians in New Zealand and the Southwestern Pacific Ocean.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-252
Scope and Contents The collection comprises photocopies of an unpublished diary (in German) by Lt Emilian von Loewenstern kept aboard the Russian ship Nadezhda on a voyage to the South Pacific in 1804, an English translation of a journal by N.I. Korobitsyn on Neva, also in 1804, as well as articles, letters, bibliographies, photographs, on the subject dating to 1981.The collection relates to Barratt's research on the Russian presence in the South Pacific, part of which he carried out at Waikato...
Dates: 1804 - 1981

Tobias Furneaux narrative of voyage with Captain Cook.

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Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-171
Scope and Contents Copy of a transcript og Captain Furneaux's narrative, April 6- Nov 2, 1773, during his voyage with Captain Cook. p.1-4: Part of Furneaux's narrative (see later part of chapter 7, Book 1, of the second voyage) p.1-13: Captain Cook's notes, Transactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound...(see chapter 8 and start of chapter 9, Book 1, of the second voyage) p.1-16: Captain Cook's notes, Transactions in Queen Charlotte's Sound...(see end of chapter 4 and greater part of chapter 5, Book 2, of the second...
Dates: 1773

William Fox journal of an expedition to Wiararapa [i.e. Wairarapa].

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-A-242
Scope and Contents Copy of William Fox's Journal of an Expedition to Wiararapa (sic).William Fox, later Sir William, arrived in Wellington in 1842, and in the autumn of the following year, as an agent of the New Zealand Company, went inland from the Hutt River looking for land suitable for settlement. He had three companions, Charles Clifford, William Vavasour and a Mr Whitehead. The journey was difficult but all were impressed with the potentiality of the Wairarapa...
Dates: 1843