Charles Heaphy

1820 — 1881

English-born New Zealand explorer, recipient of the Victoria Cross and artist (1820–1881)

Charles Heaphy VC was an English-born New Zealand explorer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest military award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that could be awarded to British and Empire forces at the time. He was the first soldier of the New Zealand armed forces to be awarded the VC. He was also a noted artist of the colonial period who created watercolours and sketches of early settler life in New Zealand.

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Nga Hiwi of Roro...[?]

Mt Egmont, from the Sugar Loaf Islands, Taranake 1849

Carved gateway, Rangi Toa Pitea, Taranaki

Kakariki, from Ship Cove and Teawaiti August, 1839

Kauri forest, Wairoa River, Kaipara. [1839]

View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839

Cowdie forest on the Wairoa River, Kaipara (Col. Wakefield proceeding to the Bay of Islands)

Mt Egmont from the southward. [September? 1840]

Port Wakefield, from the entrance of the Nairn River; Chatham Islands.

The "Cuba" at anchor, in a N.W. breeze, at Port Nicholson heads, 1840

View in the valley of the Nairne Port Wakefield in the distance

View of the rocks laying off Point Jackson - North entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound

Astrolabe Roads, Tasman's Gulf

Kaiteriteri Harbour from the entrance. Tasman's Gulf. No. 3

Nelson Haven

Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington.

View in the valley of the Waimea River, Nelson district

View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand, looking towards the south east, comprising about one-third of the water-frontage

Wellington Harbour, N.Z.

Browns Id. & Rangitoto. No. 4

Crater of White Terrace. [1849?]

The crater of Rangitoto Island, 960 ft. high. no. 1

The subordinate craters of Rangitoto Id. with the blowholes. No. 3

View in the Nelson district; Mt. Arthur in the distance no. 6

View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the intended town of Nelson 1841.

Nelson Regatta 1843

The anchorage at Massacre Bay. Aorere mountains in the distance. [1843]

The Aorere Valley Massacre Bay Nelson

[Anna Bishop] [1844?]

[The home of Mr & Mrs William Bishop, Maitai Valley]

[Nelson from Church Hill looking east]

[View of Nelson foreshore].

Fort Arthur on Church Hill

Mt Cook, Greenstone country, Middle Id. [1846]

A.C. aged 15

Untitled. [Island with ship]

[Whakari or White Island ; view of the crater looking north-west from crater margin. Ca 1850]

C.L. Churton ; Mrs Heaphy. 1851

Auckland Waterfront

Ye diggings

Ye diggings - Coromandel

Ye landing of ye diggers

Ye triumphal return from ye Wynyard his diggings. Octr 2nd 1852.

[Gold mining, Driving Creek, Coromandel. 1852]

Cave Gt Barrier Id.

Kari Mako [Korimako] Mahurangi N.Z.

Macauley Island distant 9 miles

Old Saint Paul's, Auckland

Pigeon (size of life) Loyalty Isles

Pipi wau rau roa [Pipiwharauroa] Cuckoo N.Z.

Pirangi rangi N.Z.

Wellington Head, Great Barrier Id.

[Shooting party], Mansion House, Kawau [Island] 1853.

[View of hills with sea and ship in foreground]

Bream Head Whangarei. No. 7

Allied camp at Kowloon

New Zealand Moths

The Golden Legend

Harrison's cove, Milford Sound.

Rangiaeata. 1840

Rangiaeata. [1840]

Te Rangieata or Mokau 1840

Provision House; Otumatua Pah, Cape Egmont.

Rangitoto Id. Extinct volcano. No 2

[Maori canoes]

A native woman making the kaitaka. 1848.

Wikitoria (Victoria), a halfcast of Massacre Bay, 1848.

[Castle Rock and Coromandel Harbour. 1852?]

[Earthworks of Rangiriri Pa, taken 20th Nov. 1863]