Tamatea meeting house at Ōtākou Marae on the northern tip of the Otago Peninsula.
Plaque marking the landing place of whalers at Ōtākou on the Otago Peninsula in 1831.
Christian missionaries had an early presence as the plaque at the church at Ōtākou Marae shows.
New Zealand was a British colony and had a provincial form of government from 1846-76.  James MacAndrew served as superintendent of the Otago Province from 1860-61 and again from 1867 to the end of the provincial system.
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