Gate Pa Historic Reserve

Outdoors history experience

If you prefer the outdoors to an indoors museum, to learn about Aotearoa/New Zealand history, this is for you. I visited a few years ago.

Outdoors history experience

If you prefer the outdoors to an indoors museum, to learn about Aotearoa/New Zealand history, this is for you. I visited a few years ago.

British booties got kicked

This is a peek back in time, it was a place where (and when) the Maori's got a win for their home team, even if it was brief and fleeting. In 1864 (April), the British stormed the Maori fortification...

British booties got kicked

This is a peek back in time, it was a place where (and when) the Maori's got a win for their home team, even if it was brief and fleeting. In 1864 (April), the British stormed the Maori fortification...

Fitting memorial?

This reserve is on the site of the "pa", a fortified defensive position constructed around a village or settlement , usually on a hill or terrace, that became a battleground on which the British force...