2-541: Butler Point Whaling Museum is located at Hihi , near Mangonui in New Zealand's Doubtless Bay , a centre for whaling fleets in the 1820s–1850s. The museum comprises the house built in the 1840s by early settler William Butler , an earlier Church Missionary Society house from the Waimate Mission moved to the site by Butler, both fitted with original furniture, and a recently built whaling museum, with
4-429: A restored fully equipped whaling boat , tryworks , a collection of harpoons , models, scrimshaw and artefacts from the whalers who called into Doubtless Bay, including Charles W. Morgan . There are also substantial gardens and grounds surrounding the museum, including a 10.9 metre circumference pōhutukawa tree, claimed to be the world's largest. The owners and curators, a retired ophthalmologist and his wife, live in
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