Thomas Brunner

Thomas Brunner ( baptized on August 22, 1821 in Oxford, England, † April 22, 1874 in Nelson, New Zealand) was a born in England surveyor and explorer who explored especially the West Coast region on the South Island of New Zealand. According to him, the Lake Brunner is named.

He and Charles Heaphy explored the first Europeans to the area of ​​the Ngai Tahu Maori and realized that the Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.

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  • Thomas Brunner & John D. Pascoe (1952 ): The Great Journey: Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Interior of the Middle Iceland of New Zealand, 1846-1848, Pegasus Press.
  • Discoverer (19th Century )
  • Geodesic
  • Briton
  • English
  • Born in 1821
  • Died in 1874
  • Man
Māori people Aoraki / Mount Cook
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