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A painting showing the wreck of the SS Wairarapa.

Great Barrier Island and the SS Wairarapa shipwreck

Department of Conservation —  12/11/2015

Great Barrier Island is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream, but in October 1894 it was the site of one of New Zealand’s worst shipwrecks with around 130 lives lost.

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