Peraki Bay
| Peraki Bay | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Land mass | Banks Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ S , 172 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ E | |
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| length | 2 km | |
The Peraki Bay used to be, Piraki Bay called, is a small cove on the South Island of New Zealand , the meaning from George Hempleman gained. Hempleman operated a whaling station there and is said to have been New Zealand's first German-born settler.
geography
The bay is located on the southern edge of the Banks Peninsula around 14 km west of the entrance to Akaroa Harbor . The bay is about 2 km long and stretches in a slight curve to the right in a south-westerly direction towards the Pacific Ocean .
history
Peraki Bay became important in 1835, when George Hempleman, as captain of the Brigg Bee, brought whalers from Sydney to New Zealand. In 1837 he built a whaling station and settled in the bay with his first wife, who was also buried there. In 1843 the whaling station was sold and Hempleman and his second wife moved to German Bay in Akaroa Harbor, now called Takamatua .
In The Cyclopedia of New Zealand , Volume 5 from 1905 it is reported that at that time thousands of whale bones lying around in the bay testified to the times of whaling. The Peraki Log , Hempleman's personal record, describes et al. a. his time, circumstances and events in the bay.
In 1938 a memorial was erected in the bay in honor of Hempleman.
literature
- Howard Charles Jacobson: Tales of Banks Peninsula . Ed .: Jacobson. Akaroa 1893 (English, online [accessed February 8, 2011] second edition of June 1893).
Individual evidence
- ^ Piraki Bay - Canterbury Provincial District . In: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand . Volume 3. The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, Christchurch 1903, pp. 640 (English, online [accessed February 8, 2011]).
- ^ Memorial at Peraki . In: The Evening Post . Volume CXXV, Issue 63.Wellington March 16, 1938, pp. 14 (English, online [accessed February 8, 2011]).