Sixteen regions, and what each one keeps.

Northland

Mission stations, treaty ground and the earliest sustained contact between Māori and Pākehā.

Auckland

A volcanic field that was a settled landscape first and a city second.

River settlements, confiscation lines and the country's coal seams.

Harbour pā, mission buildings and the ground of the 1864 campaigns.

Hawke's Bay

A port town rebuilt after 1931 in the style of the moment.

Redoubts, pā and the settlements of the passive-resistance years.

River transport, riverboat landings and the awa itself.

Bush-felling towns and the railway that made them possible.

Wellington

A capital built on land an earthquake supplied, in timber that pretends to be stone.

Top of the South

Early survey towns, orchards and the routes over the ranges.

West Coast

Pounamu trails, gold towns and the mines that outlasted them.

Canterbury

A planned city, and the record of what two earthquakes took from it.

Whitestone commercial streets and the limestone they were cut from.

Otago

Gold-rush wealth in stone, and the harbour that shipped it out.

Southland

Shore whaling stations and the earliest southern trade.

Stewart Island

Muttonbird islands, sawmills and a very small number of records.