Scope and Contents 232 x 186 mm. A view of Whitianga, with a jetty in the foreground leading to houses, the 'Whitiangi Hotel' and the 'Whitiangi Music Hall'. The photograph also has several people posing for the camera. Mercury Bay is a large inlet on the east coast of Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island. Whitianga is situated at a narrow strait between Mercury Bay and Whitianga Harbour, an inland extension of the Bay. It was east of Whitianga, at Cook's Beach, that Cook observed the transit of...

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238 x 182 mm. A view looking along a rough track in a valley which leads to mine workings and buildings, with a figure standing beside the road in the middle distance. The Thames area, which lies south-east of Auckland on the Coromandel Peninsula, was the scene of a gold rush in 1867. This picture shows the Shotover Reef, the first important reef to be found in the area, which was discovered by William Hunt in August 1867 and which in 1871 produced nearly £2,000,000 worth of gold.