Incumbents

Events

?March or July – The Alexander returns Teina to the Bay of Islands along with the gifts from Governor King including probably the first pigs in the area.^[2]
May – In an attempt to maintain a British monopoly of trade in Australian waters Governor King prohibits the construction of unauthorised boats of more than fourteen feet long in New South Wales.^[2]
June – James Cavanagh, a prisoner on the government vessel Lady Nelson, Lieutenant James Symons, runs from the ship when it stops near the Cavalli Islands. He lives with Māori in the Bay of Islands, becoming one of the earliest recorded Pākehā Māori, but avoids any further European contact.^[2]^[4]
December – Owen Folger Smith on board Honduras Packet, Captain Owen Bunker,^[5] discovers Foveaux Strait which he names Smith's Strait.^[2]^[6]
- – Maa-Tara is recorded as crewing on the Ferret. He has been sent by his father Te Pahi to visit the settlement at Port Jackson.^[2]

Samuel Marsden becomes the local agent for the London Missionary Society in the Pacific.^[7]
The first sealing gang is left on the Antipodes Islands by the Independence, Captain Isaac Pendleton. The Independence and all its crew are lost in Fiji and the sealing gang is not rescued for over a year.^[8]

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^ ^a ^b Te ARa Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Whaling
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Salmond, Anne. Between Worlds. 1997. Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd. ISBN 0-670-87787-5.
^ The colony of New South Wales encompasses New Zealand from 1788 to 1840. Therefore the head of state is the monarch of the United Kingdom represented by the Governor of New South Wales. However, British sovereignty was not established over New Zealand per se until 1840, at which point the Treaty of Waitangi retroactively recognised that it had been an independent territory until then. Furthermore, the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand signed by a number of Maori chiefs in 1835 was formally recognised by the British government at the time, indicating that British sovereignty did not yet extend to New Zealand. (New Zealand Ministry of Culture and Heritage)
^ "Early European Visits to NZ". Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2007.
^ Cousin of Eber Bunker. See 1792 in New Zealand
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p.106.
^ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Samuel Marsden
^ "Heritage Expeditions: Antipodes". Archived from the original on 11 August 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
^ Boase, G. C. (1897). "Shortland, Willoughby (1804–1869), naval officer and colonial administrator". Dictionary of National Biography Vol. XVII. Smith, Elder & Co. Retrieved 21 December 2007.

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