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Weller's Rock, also known as Te Umu Kuri, near Harington Point on the Otago Peninsula (at ), is named after the Weller brothers In January 2020 Te Runanga o Otakou , the Dunedin City Council and the Department of Conservation joined forces in a project to protect the site from degradation.
In 1831, the British-born Weller brothers Edward, George and Joseph, who had immigrated to Sydney in 1829, founded a whaling station at Otakou near modern Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, seventeen years before Dunedin was established. [7]
The Weller brothers of West Norwood, London, planned to produce an advanced 20 hp (15 kW) car. However, their financial backer and business manager John Portwine, a butcher, thought the car would be too expensive to produce and encouraged Weller to design and produce a little delivery three-wheeler .
Late in 1835 the Weller brothers decided to send the vessel sperm whaling. Lucy Ann was modified for pelagic whaling and departed Sydney under the command of Captain Thomas Richards in mid December 1835. [26] The vessel cruised off New Zealand and called several times at the Bay of Islands for food, wood and water. She returned to Sydney on 13 ...
Māori belligerence made pākehā nervous and emphasised the tenuousness of trade. In August 1834, the captain of the Lucy Ann reported in Sydney that the Māori living beside the Weller brothers ' whaling station on Otago harbour now treated the pākehā there with the greatest contempt, talked of wiping out all pākehā, and took what they ...
The name originally referred to the channel off Wellers Rock but was transferred to the lower harbour as a whole, the port, the nearby Māori settlements and the Weller brothers' whaling establishment, one of the region's oldest European settlements, which had been founded in 1831. The old Māori names for the Māori settlements were Te ...
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– The Weller brothers return (see below) in the Lucy Ann and establish a whaling station at Otakou. 25 December – John Guard Junior baptised in Sydney. [4] (see above) Undated. Joseph Brooks Weller commissions a vessel from shipbuilders on Stewart Island. [12]