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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. George Hempelman, a Prussian whaler, established a whaling station in the bay in 1835, and from 1837 lived there permanently. Peraki has a small cemetery, one of the earliest European cemeteries in New Zealand. 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.

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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. George Hempelman, a Prussian whaler, established a whaling station in the bay in 1835, and from 1837 lived there permanently. Peraki has a small cemetery, one of the earliest European cemeteries in New Zealand. 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: 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 he was ordered by Captain Owen Stanley of to take it down, with the Union Jack raised instead. (en)
  • Peraki ou baie de Peraki (en anglais : Peraki bay) est une baie du sud de la péninsule de Banks, dans l'Île du Sud en Nouvelle-Zélande. C'est le site de la première colonie européenne permanente dans la région de Canterbury. Fondé par George Hempleman comme une station baleinière en 1835, elle est permanente depuis 1837. Son modeste cimetière est l'un des premiers cimetières européens en Nouvelle-Zélande. (fr)
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  • Peraki ou baie de Peraki (en anglais : Peraki bay) est une baie du sud de la péninsule de Banks, dans l'Île du Sud en Nouvelle-Zélande. C'est le site de la première colonie européenne permanente dans la région de Canterbury. Fondé par George Hempleman comme une station baleinière en 1835, elle est permanente depuis 1837. Son modeste cimetière est l'un des premiers cimetières européens en Nouvelle-Zélande. (fr)
  • 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. George Hempelman, a Prussian whaler, established a whaling station in the bay in 1835, and from 1837 lived there permanently. Peraki has a small cemetery, one of the earliest European cemeteries in New Zealand. 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. (en)
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  • Peraki (fr)
  • Peraki (en)
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