Te Pahi

[1] In 1805, Te Pahi decided to seek out Lieutenant Governor Philip Gidley King who, ten years earlier, had visited New Zealand from Norfolk Island.

The superintendent of the island, Captain Piper, arranged for Te Pahi to continue his journey to Port Jackson where King had become Governor of New South Wales.

Te Pahi arrived in Port Jackson on 27 November 1805, and was received as an honoured guest by Captain Philip Gidley King, who presented him with a medal to recognise his visit.

[1] Te Pahi was incorrectly blamed for the burning of the Boyd incident in 1809[3] and his pā on Motu Apo was stormed by crew from several whaling ships in retaliation in 1810.

[4] The medal was stolen during the raid by the whalers in 1810, and its whereabouts remained unknown until 204 years later, in 2014 when an auction house in Sydney offered it for sale.