– The Weller brothers return (see below) in the Lucy Ann and establish a whaling station at Otakou.
The Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou is destroyed by fire before whaling operations have begun.
26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.
The Weller brothers whaling settlement at Otakou on the shore of Otago Harbour has the largest population of Europeans in New Zealand outside the Bay of Islands/Hokianga.
Otakou |