"1860s Waikato Wars (New Zealand) digital resource" Topic

Kiwis and tourists can now see and hear the story of the Waikato Wars as they tread the ground where Maori and Pakeha fought and died in the 1860s.

The digital resource titled The Waikato War Driving Tour was officially launched this week and is a first for the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

The collaborative project with Nga Muka includes a smartphone and iPad Driving Tour App, brochure, a website hosted by Hamilton & Waikato Tourism and an education resource for secondary schools.

More info and pics from the resource here: link

Fascinating. I knew that there were a few conflicts around the Waikato area, but did not know much more than that.

On my trips to NZ I have often stopped at Pokeno for the superb bacon, and Mercer for the cheese shop there (and can vaguely recall the gun turret nearby), without understanding the significance of either town or even that there were British gunboats on the Waikato.

Hopefully this initiative will help to put some of the by-passed towns back on the map. In wargaming terms, it looks to be tailor-made for an engrossing campaign, and the numbers involved do not seem to be huge.

Thanks for awakening my interest, although this is probably not what I needed.

I have enough unfinished projects to last me for the next eighty years, but those Empress miniatures do look tempting and the history does seem to draw one in…

Very interesting, thanks. I am hoovering-up all available information on these wars and times.

Oh goody, the wife and I were planning a few more wanders around that neck of the woods this will make it even more interesting. Thanks

Robert