About
This eighth episode in the Landmarks series was the first episode filmed, to test how geographer Kenneth Cumberland handled being in front of the camera. On a Cook Strait ferry in a southerly, he begins exploring how trade and people have gotten about Aotearoa: from the “Māori main trunk line” (beach, water), sailing ships, Cobb & Co and ‘Shanks's Pony’, to the railways and Bob Semple’s roadmaking bulldozers.The episode ends with the national grid and airways, with a rocky landing at Wellington airport demonstrating that the wrestle with place is an unresolved one.
Te Ara entry on the main trunk lines
NZHistory.net entry on the silver spike driven in by Premier Joseph Ward to open the main trunk line
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry on William Moorhouse
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry on Bishop Selwyn
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography entry on Julius Von Haast
