Butler Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi, near Mangonui[1] in New Zealand's Doubtless Bay, a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s–1850s.[2]
The museum comprises the house built in the 1840s by early settler William Butler,[3] an earlier Church Missionary Society house from the Waimate Mission moved to the site by Butler, both fitted with original furniture, and a recently built whaling museum, with a restored fully equipped whaling boat, tryworks, a collection of harpoons, models, scrimshaw and artefacts from the whalers who called into Doubtless Bay, including Charles W. Morgan. There are also substantial gardens and grounds surrounding the museum, including a 10.9 metre circumference pōhutukawa tree, claimed to be the world's largest. The owners and curators, a retired ophthalmologist and his wife, live in the grounds.
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edit- ^ "Butler Point Whaling Museum". Radio New Zealand 2017. Country Life. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Butler Point Whaling Museum". Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Ltd. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Pre-1839 foreigners in NZ Capt William Butler". Pre-1839 foreigners in NZ. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
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