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Archaeological & historic sites in New Zealand

New Zealand has 27 archaeological & historic sites on Detourmap — ancient ruins, tombs, ghost towns, shipwrecks, catacombs, mines, battlefields and crash sites. The best known is Waitakere City. All of them are below.

Archaeological
27
Oldest
Lyell 1862
Little known
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Most from
19th century
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Waitakere City
Waitakere City · Photo: Robin Capper · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

All 27 archaeological & historic sites in New Zealand

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Questions about this page

How many archaeological & historic sites are there in New Zealand?

27 on this map, out of 14,002 worldwide. That is what Wikidata records for New Zealand with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article — the real number on the ground is larger, and for some countries much larger.

What is the best known of the archaeological & historic sites in New Zealand?

Waitakere City, 20th century. Former territorial authority district of New Zealand.

Which is the oldest?

Lyell, dated to 1862. 9 of these 27 carry a founding date.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

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