Butler Point Whaling Museum

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The Butler Point Whaling Museum is a museum in the town Hihi in the Far North District on the Northland region of the North Island of New Zealand. The place is located near Mangonui in Doubtless Bay, a center of the whaling in the 1820s to 1850s.

The museum includes the house was built in the 1840s, the settler William Butler, a converted by Butler to this place older house of the Church Missionary Society of the mission Waimate, both with original furniture, as well as a newly built Whaling Museum with a whaling boat, equipment for mining the Walöles on the ships, a collection of harpoons, models, scrimshaw and articles of whalers who went in Doubtless Bay on land, including Charles W. Morgan. To the museum there is a larger garden, in which, among other things, a Pohutukawa tree 10.9 m circumference is, supposedly the largest in the world. The owners and curators, an eye doctor retired and his wife, also live on the premises.

• Whaling
• Maritime museum
• Museum in New Zealand
• Northland (New Zealand)