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Locations of Treaty Signings

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There were nine copies of the Treaty signed in various locations around New Zealand/Aotearoa in 1840 (one of which was in English). The names given to the sheets here are not official.

Key	Map Location	Date	Signatures	Key	Map Location	Date	Signatures
1	Waitangi		240 total	7	Herald-Bunbury		27 total
1a	Waitangi	6 February	43	7a	Coromandel	4 May	4
1b	Waimate	10 February	6	7b	Mercury Island	7 May	2
1c	Hokianga	12 February	64	7c	Onuku	30 May	2
1a	Waitangi [?]	17 February	1	7d	Ruapuke Island	10 June	3
	Paihia [?]	13 [?] May	4	7e	Otakau	13 June	2
	Russell	5 August	3	7f	Cloudy Bay	17 June	9
	Bay of Islands	6 February - August	34	7g	Mana (offshore)	19 June	2
1d	Waitemata	4 March	17	7h	Hawke's Bay	24 June	3
1e	Kaitaia	28 April	61	8	Henry Williams		132 total
1d	Tamaki	9 July	7	8a	Port Nicholson	29 April	34
3	Manukau-Kawhia		13 total	8b	Queen Charlotte Sound	5 May	13
3a	Waikato Heads	20 March	3	8c	Rangitoto Island	11 May	13
3b	Kawhia	28 April	1	8d	Kapiti	14 May	4
		21 May	3	8e	Waikanae	16 May	20
		25 May	1	8f	Otaki	19 May	8
		15 June	3		Tawhirihoe	21 May	3
		27 August	1	8g	Manawatu	26 May	7
		3 September	1	8h	Wanganui	23 May	10
3	*Waikato-Manukau ()**		39 total			31 May	4
3a	Waikato Heads	March [April?]	32	8i	Motungarara	4 June	2
3b	Manukau	26 April	7	9	East Coast		41 total
4	Printed Sheet		5 total	9a	Turanga (Gisborne)	5 May and later	25
4	Waikato Heads?	no date		9b	Uawa (Tolaga Bay)	16/17 May	2
5	Tauranga		21 total	9c	Waiapu (Whakawhitira)	25 May	7
5	Tauranga	10 April - 23 May			(Rangitukia)	1 June	3
6	Bay of Plenty		26 total	9d	Tokomaru	9 June	4
6a	Opotiki	27 & 28 May	7
6b	Torere	11 June	2
		14 June	1
6c	Te Kaha	14 June	4
6d	Whakatane	16 June	12

(*) This is the English version of the treaty. All other signatures, including Captain Hobson's, where on the Māori text (refer also to the translation of the Māori text).

This page is based on An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi by Claudia Orange. Published 1990 by Allen & Unwin NZ Ltd.