[2][3] The Awapoto River initially flows north-east and then east through the Abel Tasman National Park.

Together with William Lightband, he had also leased 2,000 acres (810 ha) north of Abel Head, on the south side of Awaroa Inlet, from the previous year.

[1]: 38  One of his sons was Darcy Hadfield, the winner of New Zealand's first Olympic medal in rowing (in the single sculls in 1920).

In November 2006, the descendants sold the land—by now 790 hectares (2,000 acres)—to the Department of Conservation; it was the last significant block of land to be incorporated into Abel Tasman National Park.

Fiordland's Arthur Valley is the only other mainland site in the South Island where brown teal live in the wild.