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The city of New Plymouth, New Zealand, has a history that includes a lengthy occupation and residence by Maori, the arrival of white traders and settlers in the 19th century and warfare that resulted when the demands of the two cultures clashed. European settlement began in the early 1840s at a time when many original Maori inhabitants were ...
New Plymouth (Māori: Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, in Devon, from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated.
Originally called Ngāmotu (the islands), the site of New Plymouth was occupied for hundreds of years by Māori. Pākehā traders set up a trading station at Ngāmotu in 1828, but it was not until 1841–42 that planned settlement by the Plymouth Company brought 868 immigrants from Devon and Cornwall in England to the ‘New‘ Plymouth.
Article History. New Plymouth, city (“district”) and port, Taranaki local government region, western North Island, New Zealand. It lies along North Taranaki Bight at the base of Mount Taranaki (Egmont). The settlement was founded in 1841 by the New Plymouth Company under the auspices of the New Zealand Company.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Introducing Memory Lanes Online, a web-based tour through the rich history of New Plymouth. Explore the city through historical photographs presented alongside contemporary images taken from the exact same locations.
First British Ships. The first English settlers to New Plymouth arrived on sailing ships in the 1840s. The Plymouth Company was established in Plymouth, England in 1840, and merged with the New Zealand Company in 1841. The Plymouth Company selected the site for New Plymouth, and contracted six ships to carry migrants from England.
New Plymouth NZ history and historical places. Explore the rich history, evident all throughout New Plymouth and the Taranaki region. Historical places in New Plymouth and Taranaki include historical Māori villages, Cape Egmont Lighthouse, and the wrecked SS Gairloch which is slowly crumbling into the sand near Oakura on Taranaki's coast.
