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{{Short description|None}}{{use New Zealand English|date=August 2019}}{{use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major disasters (excluding 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.

100 or more deaths

File:DC-10 of Air New Zealand at Heathrow - 1977.jpg|Air New Zealand Flight 901 in 1979File:1931 Hawkes Bay Earthquake - Town Hall, Napier (24529620482).jpg|Napier Town Hall following the earthquakeFile:The Wreck of HMS Orpheus on Manukau Bar, New Zealand ILN-1863.jpg|Illustration of the HMS Orpheus wreckFile:ChristChurch Cathedral - 2011 earthquake damage.jpg|Christchurch Cathedral following the earthquakeFile:TangiwaiMemorialPlaque1b.jpg|Tangiwai memorial plaqueFile:Wreck of the Tararua.jpg|Illustration of the SS Tararua wreckFile:SS Wairarapa Wreck At Miners Head.jpg|SS Wairarapa wreckFile:Charles-Blomfield-Mount-Tarawera-in-eruption-June-10-1886.jpg|Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption{| class=“sortable wikitable” !Deaths!!Name!!Type!!Date!!Location!!Notes

257}}|Air New Zealand Flight 901|airliner accident	format=dmy	Nov|28}}|Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica|Controlled flight into terrain

256}}Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia, edition 4 (1995). Article:	1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake, Hawke’s Bay (region)>Hawke’s Bay region, NapierDENIS > LAST = WELCH	TITLE = SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL	NEW ZEALAND LISTENER > ISSUE = 3430	URL = HTTP://WWW.LISTENER.CO.NZ/UNCATEGORIZED/SHAKE-RATTLE-ROLL/, A larger death toll of 258 includes two missing, presumed dead.|1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake|earthquake	format=dmy	Feb|3}}	Napier, New Zealand>Napier|

200}}+	Tsunamis affecting New Zealand#1820 Southland tsunami>1820s Southland tsunami|tsunami	format=dmy|1820}}s|Orepuki beach|Possibly more than 200 killed

189}}	Orpheus	6}}|shipwreck	format=dmy	Feb|7}}|off Manukau Heads, near Auckland|

185}}HTTP://WWW.POLICE.GOVT.NZ/LIST-DECEASED >TITLE= LIST OF DECEASED – CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE	DATE=9 FEBRUARY 2012, 24 February 2012, | 2011 Christchurch earthquake| earthquake	format=dmy	Feb|22}}| Christchurch|

151}}|Tangiwai disaster|train wreck/lahar	format=dmy	Dec|24}}|Whangaehu River|

135}}+Waihi Landslide {{webarchive	geonet.org.nz/content/download/5878/26262/file/geonet-news-issue-2-feb-03.pdf >date=15 October 2011 }}, GeoNet News, Vol. 2, February 2003, p. 7. Death toll calculated by subtracting death tolls for two later landslides (64 and 1 in 1846 and 1910 respectively) from the total of “more than 200” given for all three.|1st Little Waihi landslide|landslide	format=dmy|1780}}|Waihi Village|

131}}	Tararua}}|shipwreck	format=dmy	Apr|29}}|off Waipapa Point|

121}}	Wairarapa}}|shipwreck	format=dmy	Oct|29}}|off Great Barrier Island|

108}}–153The eruption’s death toll is uncertain. While 153 is a commonly quoted figure, only 108 named victims have been identified. Death list {{webarchive	www.anheizen.com/aftermath/index.php?content=deathlist.php >date=4 June 2008 }}, Anheizen.com.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 {{webarchive	www.eqc.govt.nz/downloads/pdfs/habitability-conf-presentation.pdf >date=28 May 2008 }}|1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera|volcanic eruption	format=dmy	Jun|10}}|Mount Tarawera|

50 to 99 deaths

File:Cometclipper.jpg|Clipper ship Fiery StarFile:SS Penguin.jpg|SS PenguinFile:Wreck of the American Ship General Grant.jpg|Wreck of the General GrantFile:Mass grave at Stillwater for Brunner Mine disaster victimes.jpg|Burial of victims of the Brunner Mine disasterFile:NZ Wahine Salvage.jpg|Salvage operations on the wreck of {{ship|TEV|Wahine}}File:Cape Terawhiti.jpg|Cape Terawhiti, where the City of Dunedin sankFile:Christchurch Mosque, New Zealand.jpg|The Al Noor Mosque, where the Christchurch mosque shootings began{| class=“sortable wikitable” !Deaths!Name or description!Type!Date!Location!Notes

87}}	Fiery Star (clipper)>Fiery Star|shipwreck	format=dmy	May|11}}|240 km off the Chatham Islands|

75}}	SS Penguin>SS Penguin|shipwreck	format=dmy	Feb|12}}|off Cape Terawhiti|

68}}Five more died before the survivors were rescued 18 months later.	General Grant (sailing ship)>General Grant|shipwreck	format=dmy	May}}|Auckland Island|10 castaways survived the wreck and were successfully rescued.

65}}HTTP://CHRISTCHURCHCITYLIBRARIES.COM/KIDS/NZDISASTERS/BRUNNER.ASP>TITLE=BRUNNER MINE EXPLOSION	ACCESSDATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016, |Brunner Mine disaster| mine explosion	format=dmy	Mar|26}}	Brunner, New Zealand>Brunner|

65}}Lamorna Cooper, Hipaua Steaming Cliffs and Little Waihi Landslide, Tephra, Vol. 19, June 2002, 42–47.|2nd Little Waihi Landslide|landslide	format=dmy	May|7}}|Waihi Village	Mananui Te Heuheu Tukino II and most of his family were killed in the landslide{{DNZB>last=Hura	id=1t31	accessdate=23 April 2017}}

53}}The original Wahine death toll was 51; two names were added 22 and 40 years later. Six more people were killed by Cyclone Giselle elsewhere in New Zealand.	TEV|Wahine}}| shipwreck	format=dmy	Apr|10}}| Barrett Reef, Wellington Harbour|

52}}	City of Dunedin (ship)>City of Dunedin|shipwreck	format=dmy	May|20}}| off Cape Terawhiti| There are estimates of between 250 and 600 passengers perishing, but these reports were 20 or more years later

51}}+|Blizzard and Flood of 1863|floods and blizzards	format=dmy	Jul}} – {{dts	1863|Aug}}	Central Otago Gold Rush>Central Otago goldfields| The actual death toll was probably higher because of the transient nature of the miners and the ruggedness of the country

51}}| Christchurch mosque shootings| terrorist attack	format=dmy	Mar|15}}| Christchurch|

10 to 49 deaths

File:SS Elingamite.jpg|SS ElingamiteFile:Ralph Mine Disaster (1914) (20477185083).jpg|Ralph Mine disasterFile:Ballantynes Fire.jpg|Ballantyne’s fire seen from ChristChurch CathedralFile:Seacliff Lunatic Asylum NZ.jpg|Seacliff asylum, before the fireFile:Kaitangatamemorial.jpg|Kaitangata Mine disaster memorialFile:SS Dunedin by Frederick Tudgay.JPG|SS DunedinFile:Marlborough (ship, 1876) - SLV H99.220-322.jpg|SS MarlboroughFile:StateLibQld 1 150003 Kaitawa (ship).jpg|MV KaitawaFile:MV Joyita 1955.jpg|MV JoyitaFile:StateLibQld 1 134266 Assaye (ship).jpg|SS AssayeFile:Flight 441 memorial.JPG|NAC flight 441 memorialFile:Hyde railway disaster cairn.jpg|Hyde railway disaster memorialFile:Strongman Mine memorial.JPG|Strongman Mine disaster memorialFile:ÅŒngarue Rail Disaster (1923) (27932081801).jpg|The Ongarue railway disasterFile:Jabez peters.jpg|Restored grave of Dundonald’s mate, Auckland IslandsFile:Octagon building fire 1879.jpg|Octagon building fireFile:White Island Mining n.jpg|Remains of sulphur mine, White Island{| class=“sortable wikitable”!Deaths!Name or description!Type!Date!Location!Notes

49}}	Featherston prisoner of war camp#Featherston Incident>Featherston Prisoner of war camp riot| riot	format=dmy	Feb|25}}	Featherston, New Zealand>Featherston|

45}}	SS Elingamite>SS Elingamite| shipwreck	format=dmy	Nov|9}}| off West Island in the Three Kings Islands|

43}}| Ralph Mine disaster| mine explosion	format=dmy	Sep|12}}	Huntly, New Zealand>Huntly| methane and coal dust explosionNew Zealand Disasters – Mining: Ralph’s Mine, Christchurch City Libraries

41}}|Ballantyne’s store disaster|fire	format=dmy	Nov|18}}|Christchurch|

40}}+New Zealand disasters timeline, Ministry for Culture and Heritage.Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks|Great storm of 1868, flash floods and 12 shipwrecks|storm	format=dmy	Feb|3}}|Predominantly eastern areas of New Zealand | Death toll likely understated as impact on many Māori unknown

37}}|Seacliff Lunatic Asylum|fire	format=dmy	Dec|8}}	Seacliff, New Zealand>Seacliff|

34}}|Kaitangata Mine disaster| mine explosion	format=dmy	Feb|21}}	Kaitangata, New Zealand>Kaitangata| explosion of fire-damp (methane)

34}}Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 18 September 2007.	SS Taiaroa>SS Taiaroa|shipwreck	format=dmy	Apr|11}}|Waiau Toa / Clarence River mouth|

34}}Dunedin, which cites W.H. Brett’s White Wings: Fifty years of sail in the New Zealand Trade, Vol. I. 1925.	Dunedin (ship)>Dunedin| shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy|1890}}|between Oamaru and London|

30}}	Marlborough (1876 ship)>Marlborough| shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy|1890}}	Lyttelton, New Zealand>Lyttelton and London|

29}}HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~SOOTY/KAITAWA.HTML>TITLE=NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES – SINKING OF MV KAITAWA – 1966	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016, |MV Kaitawa|shipwreck	format=dmy	May|23}}|near Pandora Bank, Cape Reinga|

29}}|Pike River Mine disaster| mine explosion	format=dmy	Nov|19}}| northwest of Greymouth		TITLE=PIKE RIVER: SECOND EXPLOSION, NO SURVIVORS	PUBLISHER=3 NEWS	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20120211123618/HTTP://WWW.3NEWS.CO.NZ/PIKE-RIVER-SECOND-EXPLOSION-NO-SURVIVORS/TABID/423/ARTICLEID/187811/DEFAULT.ASPX	URL-STATUS=DEAD,

26}}	Maria (1836 ship)>Barque Maria|shipwreck	format=dmy|1851}}|Cape Terawhiti|

25}}+HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~SOOTY/CLIVE.HTML>TITLE=NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS – CLIVE FLOODS – 1897	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016, The Wreck of The “Zuleika”, Palliser Bay. Quotes from NZ Truth, 16 March 1976.|Storm of 1897|floods and shipwreck	format=dmy	Apr|16}}|North Island	Clive, New Zealand>Clive, boating accidents, and the wreck of the Zuleika near Cape Palliser. 25 confirmed deaths and 6 unconfirmed

25}}FIELD>FIRST=MICHAEL	URL=HTTP://WWW.STUFF.CO.NZ/WORLD/SOUTH-PACIFIC/6531254/1955-PACIFIC-MYSTERY-TO-BE-FINALLY-MARKED	WORK=STUFF.CO.NZ, 6 March 2012, All 25 on board were missing when the boat was found, and are presumed dead.|MV Joyita|ghost ship	format=dmy	Oct}}|En route from Apia, Samoa to Tokelau|

24}}HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.ANCESTRY.COM/~NZBOUND/ASSAYE.HTM>TITLE=ASSAYE FROM ENGLAND TO AUCKLAND 1874	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016,	Assaye (Ship)>Assaye| shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy|1890}}|between London and Wellington; wreckage washed up at the Chatham Islands 7 months after the ship left London|

23}}| New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441| air accident	format=dmy	Jul|3}}| Kaimai Ranges|

22}}HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~SOOTY/RANUI.HTML>TITLE=NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS – RANUI SINKING – 1950	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016,	Mount Maunganui (mountain)#MV Ranui>launch Ranui|shipwreck	format=dmy	Dec|30}}|off Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty|

22}}|2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption|volcanic eruption	format=dmy	Dec|9}}|Whakaari/White Island|

21}}TALL SPARS, STEAMERS & GUM>LAST=RYBURN	YEAR=1999	PAGES=230	LOCATION=AUCKLAND, N.Z., HTTPS://FREEPAGES.ROOTSWEB.COM/~NZBOUND/GENEALOGY/PATE.HTM>TITLE=NOT MANY REMEMBER THE ‘SOPHIA PATE’ 1841 KAIPARA HARBOUR, freepages.rootsweb.com, |brigantine Sophia Pate|shipwreck	format=dmy	Aug}}|Kaipara Harbour|

21}}New Zealand Disasters – Kopuawhara flood, Christchurch City Libraries.| Kopuawhara flash flood of 1938| flood	format=dmy	Feb|19}}|Destroyed the Kopuawhara railway workers camp|

21}}|Hyde railway disaster| rail accident	format=dmy	Jun|4}}	Hyde, New Zealand>Hyde|

20}}+HTTPS://WWW.STUFF.CO.NZ/SCIENCE/106213804/ONLY-DEADLY-NZ-TSUNAMI-ON-RECORD-HIT-THE-CHATHAMS-150-YEARS-AGO>TITLE=ONLY DEADLY NZ TSUNAMI ON RECORD HIT THE CHATHAMS, 150 YEARS AGO	PUBLISHER=STUFF.CO.NZ, 2021-02-24, |Tsunami from 1868 Arica earthquake|tsunami	format=dmy	Aug|13}}|Chatham Islands|

20}}|schooner St. Vincent|shipwreck	format=dmy	Feb|14}}|Palliser Bay|

20}}HTTPS://AVIATION-SAFETY.NET/DATABASE/RECORD.PHP?ID=19450924-0 >TITLE=ASN ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION (RNZAF [NZ3526])	WEBSITE=AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK, 23 December 2020,	Royal New Zealand Air Force>RNZAF Douglas C-47 disappearance|air accident	format=dmy	Sep|24}}|en route from Vanuatu|

19}}New Zealand Disasters – Strongman Mine Explosion, Christchurch City Libraries.|Strongman Mine|mine explosion	format=dmy	Jan|19}}|near Greymouth|

18}}Rotorua. Terrible boat disaster — Eighteen natives drowned, Daily Southern Cross	issue=3953, 23 April 1870, Page 4| Canoe on Lake Rotorua|boating accident	format=dmy	Apr|16}}|near Mokoia Island on Lake Rotorua|

18}}Clyde, Dive New Zealand Magazine.	Clyde (1874 ship)>Clyde|shipwreck	format=dmy	Nov|6}}|Horseshoe Bay, near Akaroa, Banks Peninsula|

18}}Casualties, Evening Star | issue=11329, 25 August 1900, Page 8| Canoe on Motu River|boating accident	format=dmy	Aug|04}}		WORK=THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND)	> ISSUE=9835	PAGE=5, 20 January 2016, |There were 16 children and 2 adults in the six person canoe

18}}HTTP://HOMEPAGES.PARADISE.NET.NZ/~DCHAMBER/SHIPST.HTM#TAURANGA >TITLE=NEW ZEALAND HISTORICAL DATA – SHIP “TAURANGA”	ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20080415102139/HTTP://HOMEPAGES.PARADISE.NET.NZ/~DCHAMBER/SHIPST.HTM#TAURANGA	URL-STATUS=DEAD, |ketch Enterprise and steamer Tauranga| shipwreck	format=dmy	Jul|23}}|between Cape Rodney and Sail Rock, Hauraki Gulf|Those lost — fourteen crew and four passengers — all came from the Tauranga. The crew of the Enterprise survived in the ship’s longboat.Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 170–171.

18}}The Lastingham Wreck, Paul’s Dive Planet.|Lastingham|shipwreck	format=dmy	Sep|1}}	Cape Jackson, New Zealand>Cape Jackson, Cook Strait|

17}}|Ongarue railway disaster|rail accident	format=dmy	Jul|6}}|Ongarue|

17}}Eileen McSaveney, Historic earthquakes – The 1929 Arthur’s Pass and Murchison earthquakes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 21 September 2007. Accessed 2008-01-05.|1929 Murchison earthquake|earthquake	format=dmy	Jun|17}}	Murchison, New Zealand>Murchison|

16}}LIVINGSTONE>FIRST=BOB	PUBLISHER=TURNER	PAGES=115	URL=HTTPS://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=YBEFAXLGQBMC&PG=PA115, |1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai|air accident	format=dmy	Aug|2}}|Whenuapai| Those killed were mainly Japanese civilians who were being repatriated in a prisoner exchange.

16}}Whananaki Coastal Walk|Capitaine Bougainville|shipwreck	format=dmy	Sep|3}}|Whananaki|

15}}|Lockheed Lodestar airliner crash|air accident	format=dmy	Mar|18}}|near Waikanae|

15}}Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks – Holmglen, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 18 September 2007.	MV Holmglen>MV Holmglen|shipwreck	format=dmy	Nov|24}}|near Timaru|

15}}New Zealand Disasters – Brynderwyns bus accident, Christchurch City Libraries.	1963 Brynderwyn bus accident>Brynderwyns bus accident| road accident	format=dmy	Feb|7}}|Brynderwyn Hills|

15}}HTTP://TPO.TEPAPA.GOVT.NZ/VIEWTOPICEXHIBITDETAIL.ASP?TOPICFILEID=0X000A3311>TITLE=THE DERRY CASTLE	MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND TE PAPA TONGAREWA>ACCESS-DATE=2009-04-18,	Derry Castle (barque)>Derry Castle|shipwreck	format=dmy	Mar|20}}|Enderby Island, Auckland Islands|

14}}Weekly Feature – Early settler had leading role {{Webarchive	wairarapa.co.nz/times-age/weekly/2003/renall.html >date=2 July 2007 }}, Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 2003.Disastrous flood at the Hutt - 14 lives lost, Daily Southern Cross, 16 February 1858, Page 3|Hutt River flood|floods	format=dmy	Jan|17}}|Hutt Valley|

14}}HTTP://WWW.TEARA.GOVT.NZ/EN/1966/DISASTERS-AND-MISHAPS-AIR-LOSSES/1 >TITLE=PRE-WAR AND WARTIME ACCIDENTS	EDITOR-LAST=MCLINTOCK	ENCYCLOPEDIA=AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND	ACCESS-DATE=7 JANUARY 2012,	No. 4 Squadron RNZAF#Missing Aircraft>Two Hudson bombers lost off the New Zealand coast|air accident	format=dmy	Aug|21}}|en route from Fiji|No. 4 Squadron RNZAF

14}}[13 murder victims plus perpetrator]|Aramoana massacre|spree killing	format=dmy	Nov|13}}|Aramoana, near Dunedin|

14}}| Cave Creek disaster| structural failure	format=dmy	Apr|28}}| Paparoa National Park|

13}}|Tasmania|shipwreck	format=dmy|1897}}|Māhia Peninsula|

13}}Disasters and Mishaps – Shipwrecks – Ventnor, from An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, originally published in 1966, updated 18 September 2007. The cargo included the remains of 499 Chinese miners who had died in NZ and whose remains were being repatriated. The wreck was discovered in December 2012.102-year-old SS Ventnor shipwreck mystery revealed.	Ventnor (ship)>SS Ventnor|shipwreck	format=dmy	Oct|28}}|off Omapere, Hokianga|

13}}	National Airways Corporation (New Zealand)>NAC Electra air crash|air accident	format=dmy	Oct|23}}|on Mount Ruapehu|

12}}HTTP://WWW.TEARA.GOVT.NZ/EARTHSEAANDSKY/SEAANDAIRTRANSPORT/SHIPWRECKS/3/ENZ-RESOURCES/STANDARD/1/EN>TITLE=WRECK OF THE ALCMèNE – SHIPWRECKS – TE ARA ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND, |L’Alcmène|shipwreck	format=dmy	Jun|3}}|Baylys Beach, Kaipara|A French navy corvette

12}}Wreck information {{Webarchive	www.quaystuff.co.nz/wreckinfo.php >date=5 March 2008 }}, Quay Stuff.|ferry Pride of the Yarra and paddle steamer Favourite|collision	format=dmy	Jul|6}}|Otago Harbour|

12}}HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~SOOTY/DUNEDINFIRE.HTML>TITLE=NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS – OCTAGON FIRE, DUNEDIN – 1879	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016,	1879 Octagon fire>Cafe Chantant fire, The Octagon, Dunedin|fire	format=dmy	Sep|8}}|Dunedin|

12}}HTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY.ROOTSWEB.COM/~SOOTY/LIZZIEBELL.HTML>TITLE=NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS – BARQUE LIZZIE BELL SINKING – 1901	ACCESS-DATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016, |Barque Lizzie Bell|shipwreck	format=dmy	Jul|24}}|Waimate, Taranaki|

12}}Three more died before being rescued.	Dundonald (ship)>Dundonald|shipwreck	format=dmy	Mar|7}}|Disappointment Island, Auckland Islands|

12}}THE RIO LOGE>URL=HTTP://PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ/CGI-BIN/PAPERSPAST?A=D&D=CHP19090213.2.102	WORK=PRESS	AGENCY=PRESS ASSOCIATION	PAGE=11, SUPPOSED HULL OF RIO LOGE>URL=HTTP://PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ/CGI-BIN/PAPERSPAST?A=D&D=PBH19090222.2.38&L=MI&E=-------10--1----0--	WORK=POVERTY BAY HERALD	PAGE=5, |Brigantine Rio Loge|shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy	Jan}}|Last seen in Cook Strait on 14 January, en route from Kaipara to Dunedin	SS Penguin>Penguin a month later.SEARCH FOR WRECK OF PENGUIN>URL=HTTP://WWW.STUFF.CO.NZ/DOMINION-POST/ARCHIVE/NATIONAL-NEWS/1397733/SEARCH-FOR-WRECK-OF-PENGUIN	WORK=THE DOMINION POST (WELLINGTON)	>DATE=11 FEBRUARY 2009	AUTHOR2=GREER MCDONALD,

12}}Eight destructive New Zealand storms, Marilynn McLachlan, New Zealand Herald, Auckland, 4:00 PM Friday 14 March 2014 Retrieved 26 January 2016| Cyclone of 1936| storm	format=dmy	Feb|1}}| North Island and upper South Island| A tropical cyclone that originated near the Solomon Islands

11}}HTTP://WWW.TEARA.GOVT.NZ/EARTHSEAANDSKY/MINERALRESOURCES/COALANDCOALMINING/7/EN>TITLE=COAL AND COAL MINING	AUTHOR2=PHILLIPS, JOCK	ENCYCLOPEDIA=TE ARA – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND, 2009-04-18, | Glen Afton No. 1 mine| Coal mine fire	format=dmy	Sep|24}}	Huntly, New Zealand>Huntly	Carbon monoxide poisoning>carbon monoxide asphyxia

11}}HTTP://WWW.LISTENER.CO.NZ/COMMENTARY/SECRET-DEATHS/>TITLE=SECRET DEATHS	FIRST=DAVID	DATE=10 APRIL 2010, 2012-01-07, |B17 bomber crash|air accident	format=dmy	Jun|12}}|RNZAF Base Auckland at Whenuapai|

11}}HTTP://WWW.STUFF.CO.NZ/NATIONAL/6224922/HOT-AIR-BALLOON-CRASH-NEAR-CARTERTON-KILLS-11>TITLE=HOT AIR BALLOON CRASH NEAR CARTERTON KILLS 11	ACCESS-DATE=2012-01-07, |2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash|air accident	format=dmy	Jan|07}}	Carterton, New Zealand>Carterton|

11}}HTTPS://WWW.RNZ.CO.NZ/NEWS/NATIONAL/484453/CYCLONE-GABRIELLE-LIVE-DEATH-TOLL-RISES-CIVIL-DEFENCE-TARGETS-ISOLATED-COMMUNITIES > TITLE=CYCLONE GABRIELLE UPDATES: DEATH TOLL RISES, HALF OF UNCONTACTABLE REPORTS RESOLVED	RADIO NEW ZEALAND > DATE=19 FEBRUARY 2023, |Cyclone Gabrielle|cyclone	format=dmy	Feb	format=dmy	Feb|16}}|North Island and northern South Island|

10}}Add them to the list: Underwater survey discovers new wrecks in Marlborough Sounds, Oliver Lewis, Stuff.co.nz, Last updated 12:42, 1 September 2017, retrieved 1 September 2017|Shamrock sailing boat|shipwreck	format=dmy|1834}}	Queen Charlotte Sound (New Zealand)>Queen Charlotte Sound|Capsized and sank. Exact location unknown.

10}}LOSS OF THE BRIG AUSTRALIA, AT CAPE CAMPBELL>URL=HTTP://PAPERSPAST.NATLIB.GOVT.NZ/CGI-BIN/PAPERSPAST?A=D&D=GRA18730607.2.4&DLIV=&E=-------10--1----2--	WORK=GREY RIVER ARGUS	PAGE=2, |Brig Australia|shipwreck	format=dmy	May|23}}|off Cape Campbell|

10}}|White Island sulphur mine| lahar following volcano crater wall collapse	format=dmy	Sep|10}}|Whakaari/White Island		TITLE=WHAKAARI (WHITE ISLAND) AND MOTUHORA (WHALE ISLAND). A REPORT TO THE WAITANGI TRIBUNAL.	WEBSITE=MINISTRY OF JUSTICE	ACCESS-DATE=13 DECEMBER 2019	DATE=NOVEMBER 1993, GRENFELL >FIRST1=HUGH	URL=HTTPS://WWW.AUCKLANDMUSEUM.COM/DISCOVER/COLLECTIONS/TOPICS/THE-1914-WHITE-ISLAND-WHAKAARI-MINING-DISASTER	ACCESS-DATE=13 DECEMBER 2019, 16 June 2015,

10}}HTTP://WWW.TEARA.GOVT.NZ/EARTHSEAANDSKY/RECREATIONSEAANDSKY/SAILINGANDWINDSURFING/6/ENZ-RESOURCES/STANDARD/2/EN>TITLE=YACHT WRECKED IN OCEAN RACE	WORK=THE PRESS	ACCESS-DATE=2009-04-18, |Husky and Argo lost to storm in yacht race|shipwrecks	format=dmy	Jan|21}}|between Wellington and Christchurch|

10}}HTTP://AVIATION-SAFETY.NET/DATABASE/RECORD.PHP?ID=19890808-0>TITLE=ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION	ACCESS-DATE=2009-04-17, |Aspiring Air Britten-Norman Islander, collided with terrain|air crash	format=dmy	Aug|8}}	Dart River / Te Awa Whakatipu>Upper Dart Valley|

NOTE: The exact number of deaths in some early New Zealand shipwrecks is not fully recorded. There may be several shipwrecks not listed here which claimed ten or more lives.“>

Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths {| class“sortable wikitable”

!Deaths!Name or description!Type!Date!Location!Notes|9|1855 Wairarapa earthquake|earthquake

format=dmy	Jan|23}}|Lake Wairarapa|

|9|2010 Fox Glacier FU-24 crash|air accident

format=dmy	Sep|4}}	Fox Glacier (town)>Fox Glacier|

|7

Stanley Graham#The day of the rampage>1941 Kowhitirangi shootings|spree killing	format=dmy	Oct	format=dmy	Oct|9}}	Kokatahi>Kowhitirangi, near Hokitika|four police officers and three civilians killed

|7|Cyclone Bola|cyclone

format=dmy	Mar	format=dmy	Mar|12}}|North Island|

|7|Mangatepopo Canyon disaster|flood

format=dmy	Apr|15}}|Tongariro National Park|

|7|2015 Fox Glacier helicopter crash|air accident

format=dmy	Nov|21}}|Fox Glacier|

|6|Raurimu massacre|spree killing

format=dmy	Feb|8}}|Raurimu|

|5|Loafers Lodge fire|fire

format=dmy	May|16}}	Newtown, New Zealand>Newtown, Wellington|

4}}| Ansett New Zealand Flight 703| air accident	format=dmy	Jun|9}}|Tararua Range, near Palmerston North|

|4|2023 Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods|flood

format=dmy	Jan	format=dmy	Feb|2}}|upper North Island|

|3|1968 Inangahua earthquake|earthquake

format=dmy	May|24}}|near Inangahua Junction|

|3|2023 Auckland shooting|shooting

format=dmy	Jul|20}}|Auckland CBD|

|2|1966 Air New Zealand DC-8 crash|air accident

format=dmy	Jul|4}}|near Auckland Airport|

|2|Air New Zealand Flight 4374|air accident

format=dmy	Feb|17}}|near Auckland Airport|

|2|Airwork Flight 23|air accident

format=dmy	May|3}}	Stratford, New Zealand>Stratford|

|2|2010 Canterbury earthquake|earthquake

format=dmy	Sep|4}}	Darfield, New Zealand>Darfield|

|2|2016 Kaikōura earthquake|earthquake

format=dmy	Nov|14}}	Waiau, Canterbury>Waiau|

|1|1987 Edgecumbe earthquake|earthquake

format=dmy	Mar|2}}|near Edgecumbe|

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Pandemics and health crises{| class“sortable wikitable” width“80%”

!Deaths!Description!Date!Location!Notes

8600}}| 1918 flu pandemic| 1918 October–December| nationwide		PUBLISHER=NZHISTORY.NET.NZ	ACCESSDATE=2017-02-12,

| 3,623

COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand>COVID-19 pandemic| 2020 February–ongoing| nationwide		WEBSITE=WWW.HEALTH.GOVT.NZ	ACCESS-DATE=19 DECEMBER 2023	LANGUAGE=EN	AT=COVID-19 CASES SUMMARY, COVID-19 ACTIVE CASES IN NEW ZEALAND - DECEASED >URL=HTTPS://COVID19MAP.CO.NZ/	PUBLISHER=GLOBAL RISK CONSULTING GROUP (GRC)	DATE=19 DECEMBER 2023, Deceased, (Statistics updated weekly.)

713}}	HIV/AIDS in New Zealand>HIV/AIDS pandemic| 1983–ongoing| nationwide		DATE=APRIL 2015	PAGE=13,

|69

2009 swine flu pandemic in New Zealand>2009 swine flu pandemic|2009 April–September|nationwide		LAST2=JOURNALIST	TITLE=SWINE FLU 2009/2010	ACCESS-DATE=2023-06-13	LANGUAGE=EN-NZ,

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Significant incidents of New Zealanders being killed overseas{| class“sortable wikitable” width“80%”

! Confirmed Deaths! Name! Type! Date! Location! Notes

470}}John Wilson, The voyage out – Fire on the Cospatrick, from Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 21 September 2007. Accessed 2008-05-20.	Cospatrick (ship)>Cospatrick|ship lost to fire	format=dmy	Nov|17}}|640 km south-west of the Cape of Good Hope, en route to Auckland|Only 3 people survived

100}}The Mercury newspaper (Hobart, Australia), weblink, Tuesday 30 October 1888|The Trevelyan (immigrant ship en route from Glasgow)|storm	format=dmy	Jun|03}}|Presumed foundered off the South African coast, en route to Port Chalmers, New Zealand|

89}}{{usurped|1=www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14399.asp" title="web.archive.org/web/20101120194019www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14399.asp">Board of Trade Wreck Report for ‘Knowsley Hall’, 1880}}, Board of Trade, 1880. Accessed 21 May 2008.|Knowsley Hall| shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy|1879}}	London and Lyttelton, New Zealand>Lyttelton|

79}}The Missing New Zealand Ship ‘MATOAKA’, which cites The Times, London, 22 March 1870, page 9. Accessed 21 May 2008.	Matoaka (1853 ship)>Matoaka| shipwreck (presumed)	format=dmy|1869}}	Lyttelton, New Zealand>Lyttelton and London|

15}}HTTPS://AVIATION-SAFETY.NET/DATABASE/RECORD.PHP?ID=19430605-1 >TITLE=ASN ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION (RNZAF [NZ4006])	WEBSITE=AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK, 23 December 2020,	Royal New Zealand Air Force>RNZAF Catalina crash|air accident	format=dmy	Jun|5}}|south of Fiji|

14}}HTTPS://AVIATION-SAFETY.NET/DATABASE/RECORD.PHP?ID=19740130-0 >TITLE=ASN ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION (PAN AM-806)	WEBSITE=AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK		URL=HTTPS://SCONTENT.FHLZ1-1.FNA.FBCDN.NET/V/T31.0-8/13581960_779061095567740_7318163759676777254_O.JPG?_NC_CAT=110&CCB=2&_NC_SID=9267FE&_NC_OHC=UTLC57ELYJCAX-E1GBR&_NC_HT=SCONTENT.FHLZ1-1.FNA&OH=E610010565966BBDF59FCB7102311F94&OE=6008928D	LOCATION=PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA	ACCESS-DATE=24 DECEMBER 2020, |Pan Am Flight 806|air accident	format=dmy	Jan|30}}|Pago Pago, American Samoa|Only New Zealand deaths listed

12}}HTTPS://AVIATION-SAFETY.NET/DATABASE/RECORD.PHP?ID=19450127-2 >TITLE=ASN ACCIDENT DESCRIPTION (RNZAF [NZ4022])	WEBSITE=AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK, 23 December 2020, |1945 RNZAF Catalina crash|air accident	format=dmy	Jan|27}}|off Beqa, Fiji|

10}}HTTPS://WWW.BBC.CO.UK/DEVON/NEWS/092001/26/KIWIS.SHTML>TITLE=DEVON – BBC NEWS	ACCESSDATE=15 SEPTEMBER 2016, |Bere Ferrers rail accident, train hit NZ troops on tracks by platform| train accident	format=dmy	Sep|24}}|Bere Ferrers, Devon, UK|

See also

• List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll
• List of disasters in Australia by death toll
• List of disasters in Canada by death toll
• List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
• List of earthquakes in New Zealand
• List of massacres in New Zealand
• List of natural disasters in New Zealand
• List of New Zealand-related topics
• List of rail accidents in New Zealand
• List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll (worldwide)

References

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External links

• New Zealand disasters timeline, Ministry for Culture and Heritage
• www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/NaturalHazardsAndDisasters/en" title="web.archive.org/web/20080112020453www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/NaturalHazardsAndDisasters/en">Natural hazards and disasters, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/SeaAndAirTransport/Shipwrecks/en" title="web.archive.org/web/20071224171034www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/SeaAndAirTransport/Shipwrecks/en">Shipwrecks, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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