Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Rapanui Rock" in English language version.
From surveys made by H.M. ships Acheron and Pandora, Captain J. Lort Stokes, and Commander Byron Drury, 1848-55.
One landscape format black and white glass plate positive stereograph slide depicting a man standing in front of Shag Rock
Purchased 2017 Watercolour 400 x 568mm 2017/085
Original wood-engraving, watercolour tinted 100 x 177mm 79/58
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898: The Shag Rock, Sumner, Christchurch [April, 1870?]. Ref: A-027-018. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23130029
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :The Sumner River, Canterbury, from the Cave Rock, 1 April 1870. Ref: A-027-016. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23054398
And the dwellers in the riverbank pa, Pohoareare, men, women and children, launched their canoes and paddled down the slow Opaawaho, across the shallows of Ohikaparuparu, or, literally, "Fall-in-the-mud", and so out past the black, tooth-like rock of Rapanui to the firm beach sands, where Sumner township stands to-day.
