Wohler's Monument - Wohler's Monument Ringaringa Road
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| Address : | Wohler's Monument Ringaringa Road, Oban 9818, New Zealand |
| Postal code : | 9818 |
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E Silby on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful spot
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George Haden on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Average
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Daniel Bleher on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hidden but nice, great view from here
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Florian KPunkt on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Beautiful spot with good view that can be visited by a small hike/walk starting in Oban. I would estimate that it takes 1,5 hours walking directly they from Oban. But you can connect this walk with another walk along the coast passing Golden Bay and Deep Bay.
The whole walk is a little bit hilly.
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Vera Liu on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ gorgeous view if you walk further from here
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Linda Byron on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A peaceful spot plus we had the beach below to ourselves.
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T.V. Fjordland on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A true historic marker: Johann Friedrich Wohlers was born on 1 October 1811 at Hoyerhagen, a North German township 30 miles from the city of Bremen. His father, Gerd Wohlers, came from peasant stock and was a man of some substance for he was elected squire, or Bauermeister, of the parish.
Of the Reformed North German Mission at Hamburg. Wohlers was ordained in 1842 and arrived in New Zealand in June 1843, and until the following April he did pastoral work in rural Nelson. When Frederick Tuckett, Chief Surveyor to the Nelson settlement, chartered the schooner Deborah to sail south in search of suitable land for the proposed Scottish settlement, Wohlers accompanied him. When Wohlers set foot on Ruapuke Island on 17 May 1844, it contained the largest Maori settlement in southern New Zealand.
By this time, the population of Ruapuke was declining through emigration to the mainland and other islands. Wohlers ultimately moved to Stewart Island and died there at Ringaringa on 7 May 1885.
Unlike the earlier Protestant missionaries, Wohlers did not believe that barbarians could be civilised within a few years by the influence of the Gospel. A man of infinite patience, he laboured in a dark corner of the earth knowing that religious and social advance could proceed only slowly. His faith, courage, and self-sacrificing devotion enabled him to do much to civilise the southern Maoris and to prepare the way for friendly cooperation between them and the Europeans.
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