List of New Zealand disasters by death toll
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This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, comprised of major disasters (excluding epidemics and acts of war) which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.

Hastings Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
Hastings Post Office after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
Remnants of Flight 901 fuselage, 2005
Remnants of Flight 901 fuselage, 2005
Wreck of the HMS Orpheus
Wreck of the HMS Orpheus
Tangiwai Memorial
Tangiwai Memorial
Wreck of the Tararua
Wreck of the Tararua
Fissure formed in Tarawera's 1886 eruption
Fissure formed in Tarawera's 1886 eruption
Remains of sulphur mine, White Island
Remains of sulphur mine, White Island
Restored grave of Dundonald's mate, Auckland Islands
Restored grave of Dundonald's mate, Auckland Islands
Octagon building fire
Octagon building fire
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Contents

List of disasters

Over 100 confirmed deaths

Confirmed Deaths Name Date Location Type Notes
257 Air New Zealand Flight 901 01979-11-28 November 28, 1979 Mt Erebus, Ross Dependency, Antarctica Air crash - Controlled flight into terrain
256[1][2] 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake 01931-02-03 February 3, 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
189 HMS Orpheus 01863-02-07 February 7, 1863 off the Manukau Heads near Auckland shipwreck
151 Tangiwai disaster 01953-12-24 December 24, 1953 Whangaehu River Bridge, between Waiouru and Ohakune train crash / lahar caused by lahar from Mount Ruapehu
135 estimated[3] 01780 1780 Te Rapa/Waihi Village landslide
131 SS Tararua 01881-04-29 April 29, 1881 off Waipapa Point shipwreck
121 SS Wairarapa 01894-10-29 October 29, 1894 off Great Barrier Island shipwreck
108[4][5] 01886 1886 Mount Tarawera volcanic eruption
100-200[6] 01863 1863 Jul-Aug Central Otago goldfields floods and snowstorms

10-100 confirmed deaths

Deaths Disaster Details Location Date
89[7] presumed shipwreck Knowsley Hall between London and Lyttelton 01879 1879
79 shipwreck Fiery Star 240 km off the Chatham Islands 01865-05-11 May 11, 1865
79[8] presumed shipwreck Matoaka between Lyttelton and London 01869 1869
75 shipwreck SS Penguin off Cape Terawhiti 01909-02-12 February 12, 1909
68[9] shipwreck General Grant Auckland Island 01866-05 May 1866
65 mine disaster Brunner 01896-03-26 March 26, 1896
65[10] landslide Waihi Village 01846-05-07 May 7, 1846
53[11] shipwreck TEV Wahine, Wahine disaster Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour 01968-04-10 April 10, 1968
48 prison riot Featherston prisoner of war camp Featherston, New Zealand 01943-02-25 February 25, 1943
45 shipwreck SS Elingamite off West Island in the Three Kings Islands 01902-11-09 November 9, 1902
43[12] mine disaster Ralph's Mine Huntly 01914-09-12 September 12, 1914
41 fire Ballantyne's store disaster Christchurch 01947-11-18 November 18, 1947
39-47+[13][14] shipwreck City of Dunedin Cook Strait 01865-05-20 May 20, 1865
37 or 39 fire Seacliff Lunatic Asylum Seacliff 01942-12-08 December 8, 1942
34 or 39[13][15] shipwreck SS Taiaroa Clarence River mouth 01886-04-11 April 11, 1886
34 mine explosion Kaitangata 01879-02-21 February 21, 1879
34[16] presumed shipwreck Dunedin between Oamaru and London 01890 1890
30 presumed shipwreck Marlborough between Lyttelton and London 01890 1890
29[17] shipwreck MV Kaitaia near Pandora Bank, Cape Reinga 01966-05-23 May 23, 1966
26 shipwreck[15] Barque Maria Cape Terawhiti 01851 1851
25+[18][13] storm Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks 01868-02-03 February 3, 1868
24[19] presumed shipwreck Assaye between London and Wellington; wreckage washed up at the Chathams 7 months after the ship left London 01890 1890
23 air crash New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441 Kaimai Ranges 01963-07-03 July 3, 1963
22[20] sinking launch Ranui off Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty 01950-12-30 December 30, 1950
21 train crash Hyde railway disaster near Hyde 01943-06-04 June 4, 1943
21[21] flash flood railway workers camp Kopuawhara 01938-02-19 February 19, 1938
21[22][23] shipwreck brigantine Sophia Pate Kaipara Harbour 01841-08 August 1841
20[15] shipwreck schooner St. Vincent Palliser Bay 01869 1869
19[24] mine explosion Strongman Mine near Greymouth 01967-01-19 January 19, 1967
18[25] shipwreck Clyde Horseshoe Bay, near Akaroa, Banks Peninsula 01884-11-06 November 6, 1884
18[26] shipwreck Lastingham Cape Jackson, Cook Strait 01884-09-01 September 1, 1884
18[27] collision and sinking schooners Enterprise and Tauranga between Cape Rodney and Sail Rock, Hauraki Gulf 01870-07-23 July 23, 1870
17[28] earthquake Murchison 01929-06-17 June 17, 1929
17 train crash [13] Ongarue 01923-07-06 July 6, 1923
15[29] bus accident Brynderwyns 01963-02-07 February 7, 1963
15[30] shipwreck MV Holmglen near Timaru 01959-11-24 November 24, 1959
15[13] air crash near Waikanae 01949-03-18 March 18, 1949
14 viewing platform collapse Cave Creek disaster Paparoa National Park 01995-04-28 April 28, 1995
14[31] spree killing Aramoana massacre Aramoana 01990-11-13 November 13, 1990
14[32] floods Hutt Valley 01858-01-17 January 17, 1858
13 air crash NAC Electra air crash on Ruapehu 01948-10-23 October 23, 1948
13[33] shipwreck SS Ventnor off Omapere, Hokianga 01902-10-28 October 28, 1902
13[15] shipwreck Tasmania Mahia Peninsula 01897 1897
12[34] shipwreck barque Dundonald Disappointment Island, Auckland Islands 01907-03-07 March 7, 1907
12[35] shipwreck Barque Lizzie Bell Waimate, Taranaki 01901-07-24 July 24, 1901
12[36] floods Clive, Hawkes Bay 01897-04-16 April 16, 1897
12[37] shipwreck Zuleika near Cape Palliser 01897-04-16 April 16, 1897
12[38] fire Octagon building fire Dunedin 01879-09-08 September 8, 1879
12[39] collision ferry Pride of the Yarra and paddle steamer Favourite Otago Harbour 01863-07-06 July 6, 1863
12[40] shipwreck Alcmène Baylys Beach, Kaipara 01851-06-03 June 3, 1851
10[41] lahar Whakaari/White Island 01914-09-10 September 10, 1914

Significant international events involving New Zealanders

Confirmed Deaths Name Date Location Type Notes
470[42] Cospatrick 01874-11-17 November 17, 1874 640 km south-west of the Cape of Good Hope, en route to Auckland fire
10[43] Bere Ferrers railway station, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform 01917-09-24 September 24, 1917 Bere Ferrers, Devon, UK train accident

See also

References

  1. ^ Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia, edition 4 (1995). Article: |earthquake 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Hawke's Bay region, Napier
  2. ^ Welch, Denis (4 February 2006). "Shake, Rattle & Roll". New Zealand Listener (Issue 3430): 29–30.  A larger death toll of 258 includes two missing, presumed dead.
  3. ^ Waihi Landslide, GeoNet News, Vol. 2, January 2003, p. 7. Death toll calculated by subtracting death tolls for two later landslides (65 and 1 in 1846 and 1910 respectively) from the total of "more than 200" given for all three.
  4. ^ The eruption's death toll is uncertain. While 153 is a commonly quoted figure, only 108 named victims have been identified. Death list, Anheizen.com.
  5. ^ In 2007, the General Manager of the Earthquake Commission said that "... Ngati Hinemihi oral accounts put the death toll in the thousands." David Middleton (2007). A Roof Over Their Heads? The challenge of accommodation following disasters. (Accessed 2008-04-12.)
  6. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Flood Hazards - Blizzard and Flood in 1863, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966. Accessed 2008-01-22.
  7. ^ Board of Trade Wreck Report for 'Knowsley Hall', 1880, Board of Trade, 1880. Accessed 2008-05-21.
  8. ^ The Missing New Zealand Ship 'MATOAKA', which cites The Times, London, 22 March 1870, page 9. Accessed 2008-05-21.
  9. ^ Five more died before the survivors were rescued 18 months later.
  10. ^ Lamorna Cooper, Hipaua Steaming Cliffs and Little Waihi Landslide, Tephra, Vol. 19, June 2002, 42-47.
  11. ^ The original Wahine death toll was 51; two names was added 22 and 40 years later. Three more people were killed by Cyclone Giselle elsewhere in New Zealand.
  12. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Mining: Ralph's Mine, Christchurch City Libraries.
  13. ^ a b c d e New Zealand disasters timeline, Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
  14. ^ Steamer 'City of Dunedin'- Mysterious Sinking - Cook Strait, New Zealand - May 20, 1865
  15. ^ a b c d Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18.
  16. ^ Dunedin, which cites W.H. Brett's White Wings: Fifty years of sail in the New Zealand Trade, Vol. I. 1925.
  17. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Sinking of MV Kaitaia - 1966
  18. ^ Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks
  19. ^ Assaye
  20. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Ranui sinking - 1950
  21. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Kopuawhara flood, Christchurch City Libraries.
  22. ^ Ryburn, Wayne (1999). Tall Spars, Steamers & Gum, p 230. ISBN 0-473-06176-7. 
  23. ^ "Not many remember the Sophia Pate".
  24. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Strongman Mine Explosion, Christchurch City Libraries.
  25. ^ Clyde, Dive New Zealand Magazine.
  26. ^ The Lastingham Wreck, Paul's Dive Planet.
  27. ^ New Zealand Historical Data - Ship "Tauranga"
  28. ^ Eileen McSaveney, Historic earthquakes - The 1929 Arthur’s Pass and Murchison earthquakes, Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2007-09-21. Accessed 2008-01-05.
  29. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Brynderwyns bus accident, Christchurch City Libraries.
  30. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks - Holmglen, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18.
  31. ^ [13 murder victims plus perpetrator]
  32. ^ Weekly Feature - Early settler had leading role, Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 2003.
  33. ^ Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks - Ventnor, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 2007-09-18. The cargo included 499 corpses, which were never recovered.
  34. ^ Three more died before being rescued.
  35. ^ New Zealand Disasters - Barque Lizzie Bell sinking - 1901
  36. ^ Clive floods - Hawkes Bay, North Island - Good Friday 16 April 1897
  37. ^ The Wreck of The "Zuleika", Palliser Bay. Quotes from NZ Truth, 16 March 1976.
  38. ^ Octagon building fire, Dunedin - 08 September 1879
  39. ^ Wreck information, Quay Stuff.
  40. ^ Wreck of the Alcmène
  41. ^ A death toll of 12 is sometimes given. This may include two miners who died during the year before the lahar.
  42. ^ John Wilson, The voyage out - Fire on the Cospatrick, from Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2007-09-21. Accessed 2008-05-20.
  43. ^ BBC - Devon - News - Bere Ferrers unveils memorial to 10 New Zealand soldiers killed in a train accident in 1917

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