Port Ross

[1][2] In 1842, members of the Ngāti Mutunga Māori arrived in Port Ross from the Chatham Islands with Moriori slaves in an attempt to establish a settlement.

[3][4] In the late 1840s, an agricultural and whaling community set up in Erebus Cove, on the harbour, and named Hardwicke.

Survivors of the 1866 wreck of the General Grant set up a camp in the harbour, where they lived for 18 months before rescue.

Later, castaway depots were established in Port Ross to provide succour for any sailors wrecked or marooned on the islands.

It was also one of three sites occupied by the wartime Cape Expedition coastwatching stations established on New Zealand's subantarctic islands.