The Chatham Islands suffer invasion by a…

November 1835 CE

The Chatham Islands suffer invasion by a British ship carrying five hundred Maori armed with clubs, guns, and axes.

Fve hundred miles east of New Zealand, the Chatham Islanders are the Moriori, Polynesian hunter-gatherers of Maori origins who branched off from the Aotearoa nation several centuries before.

The first ship had arrived on November 19, 1835; a second shipload of four hundred Maori invaders arrives on December 5.

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Waitangi Chatham Islands New Zealand View →

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Aotearoa View → Moriori people View → Maori people View → Australia, British View →

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