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Peraki, a Māori language place name with an initial spelling of Pireka, is a bay on the south side of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement in Canterbury. [1] [2] George Hempelman, a Prussian whaler, established a whaling station in the bay in 1835, and from 1837 lived there permanently. [3] Peraki has a small cemetery, one of the earliest European cemeteries in New Zealand. [4]
The Wairewa and Akaroa Counties paid for a memorial to Hempelman that was placed on Peraki Beach in March 1939. The memorial is made up of a whale try pot with the following inscription: [5]
Erected to commemorate the centenary of the first white settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, Captain George Hempelman, who established a whaling station at Peraki in 1835.
Hempelman flew the German flag in front of his house, and in 1840 [6] he was ordered by Captain Owen Stanley of HMS Britomart to take it down, with the Union Jack raised instead. [5]
43°51′30″S 172°49′27″E / 43.85833°S 172.82417°E
Peraki, a Māori language place name with an initial spelling of Pireka, is a bay on the south side of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. It is the site of the first permanent European settlement in Canterbury. [1] [2] George Hempelman, a Prussian whaler, established a whaling station in the bay in 1835, and from 1837 lived there permanently. [3] Peraki has a small cemetery, one of the earliest European cemeteries in New Zealand. [4]
The Wairewa and Akaroa Counties paid for a memorial to Hempelman that was placed on Peraki Beach in March 1939. The memorial is made up of a whale try pot with the following inscription: [5]
Erected to commemorate the centenary of the first white settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, Captain George Hempelman, who established a whaling station at Peraki in 1835.
Hempelman flew the German flag in front of his house, and in 1840 [6] he was ordered by Captain Owen Stanley of HMS Britomart to take it down, with the Union Jack raised instead. [5]