1802 in New Zealand

none November 2019 August 2023 1802 There are no known visits by sealers this year as they concentrate on Bass Strait. However Charles Bishop and George Bass call at Dusky Sound in the Venus where they spend fourteen days stripping iron from the hulk of Captain Brampton's old ship the Endeavour, to barter in Tahiti for pork before returning to Sydney in November.Rowley Taylor, Straight Through From London, the Antipodes and Bounty Islands, New Zealand, Heritage Expeditions New Zealand Ltd, Christchurch, 2006, 0-473-10650-7, pp. 37,38, 40. There are several British whalers operating off the north-east coast, only one of which is certainly known to have landed (at the Bay of Islands). There are an unknown number of American whalers also in the area but as they do not usually call at Port Jackson their activities, including where, if at all, they land, are largely unknown.Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. 0-670-87787-5. Events 21 May – Governor King questions the Captains of three ships, the Britannia, Speedy and Venusi about whaling off the New Zealand coast. Undated The whaler Harriet is the first ship known to have visited the Bay of Islands since 1793. Births 11 December (in France): Jean Baptiste Pompallier, first Catholic bishop of Auckland.http://www.catholic.org.nz/pompallier/v3index.html Bishop Pompallier 5 June 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090103121306/http://www.catholic.org.nz/pompallier/v3index.html 3 January 2009 dead 24 December (in England): Robert Wynyard, governor of New Ulster province.'WYNYARD, Robert Henry', from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand 18 September 2007 http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/1966/W/WynyardRobertHenry/en See also History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica Timeline of the New Zealand environment References 1802 in yes Category:1800s in New Zealand Category:1802 by country Category:1802 in Oceania Category:1802 in the British Empire Category:Years of the 19th century in New Zealand