Port Hutt | |
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 View of Port Hutt from the northeast | |
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| Coordinates:43°48′53″S176°42′35″W / 43.81472°S 176.70972°W /-43.81472; -176.70972 | |
| Country |  New Zealand |
| Territorial authority | Chatham Islands |
Port Hutt is a small settlement and beach onChatham Island, in theChatham Islands group in New Zealand. It is located in the northwest of the island, near the northern end of the large indentation ofPetre Bay, some 24 km from the island's largest settlementWaitangi (which lies near the southern end of Petre Bay).[1]
The beach is whereNgāti Tama andNgāti Mutunga invaders landed in November 1835.
The port was one of the Chathams' main harbours during the early years of European settlement. Several vessels were wrecked on the reef, among them thewhalingbrigAnn and Mary in 1839 and thebrigantineLowestoff in 1847.
The wreck of theSSThomas Currell lies in shallow water on the beach. She was built in 1919 as a fishing trawler, and was converted for use as a minesweeper during World War II, returned to service in the fishing industry after the war and eventually was used as a floating freezer in Port Hutt. She was run ashore in 1968.
The settlement sits at the edge of a small, deep inlet known as eitherPort Hutt orWhangaroa Harbour. The inlet is guarded by reefs with surround Point Dawson, the 70-metre high headland at the western edge of the harbour mouth.
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