March 14, 2003
The Maritime Museum
Auckland, New Zealand

Following the Wake of Ancient Explorers

By Lois Joy

We have walked through fourteen buildings of the New Zealand Maritime Museum before stopping for coffee. As we traipsed from a gigantic shed housing an old Maori double hulled canoe and onward to a replica of a masted schooner, I thought of what I’d read about the European explorers who had “discovered” New Zealand.

• Announcing Film at Maritime Museum   

• Waka Showing Deckhouse  

• Close-up of Thatching on Deckhouse  

• Model of Waka  

(To be continued...)

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