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
50 to 99 deaths
File:Cometclipper.jpg, Clipper ship ''Fiery Star''
File:SS Penguin.jpg, SS ''Penguin''
File:Wreck of the American Ship General Grant.jpg, Wreck of the ''
General Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union ...
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File:Mass grave at Stillwater for Brunner Mine disaster victimes.jpg, Burial of victims of the Brunner Mine disaster
File:NZ Wahine Salvage.jpg, Salvage operations on the wreck of
File:Cape Terawhiti.jpg, Cape Terawhiti, where the ''
City of Dunedin
City of Dunedin, during the first two parliaments called Town of Dunedin, was a parliamentary electorate in Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand. It was one of the original electorates created in 1853 and existed, with two breaks, until 1905. The firs ...
File:SS Elingamite.jpg, SS ''Elingamite''
File:Ralph Mine Disaster (1914) (20477185083).jpg, Ralph Mine disaster
File:Ballantynes Fire.jpg,
Ballantyne's fire
On Tuesday, 18 November 1947, a fire engulfed Ballantynes department store in central Christchurch, New Zealand. 41 people died; 39 employees and two auditors, who found themselves trapped by the fire, or were overcome by smoke while evacuat ...
seen from ChristChurch Cathedral
File:Seacliff Lunatic Asylum NZ.jpg, Seacliff asylum, before the fire
File:Kaitangatamemorial.jpg,
Strongman Mine
The Strongman Mine was an underground coal mine north of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand from 1938 to 2003.
On 19 January 1967 a gas explosion in the mine killed 19 miners.
In 1994 the original mine was replaced by the Strongman 2 mi ...
disaster memorial
File:Ōngarue Rail Disaster (1923) (27932081801).jpg, The
Ongarue railway disaster
The Ongarue railway disaster occurred on 6 July 1923 near the small settlement of Ongarue, near Taumarunui, North Island, New Zealand, when an overnight express ran into a landslip. Of the 200 passengers on board, 17 died and 28 were injured. T ...
File:Jabez peters.jpg, Restored grave of '' Dundonalds mate, Auckland Islands
File:Octagon building fire 1879.jpg,
Octagon
In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον ''oktágōnon'', "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, whi ...
building fire
File:White Island Mining n.jpg, Remains of sulphur mine, White Island
''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.''
Pandemics and health crises
Significant incidents of New Zealanders being killed overseas
See also
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List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll
The following is a list of all known disasters in Antarctica which have resulted in fatalities. It includes disasters which happened on land, as well as in the waters surrounding the continent.
See also
* List of disasters in Australia by death ...
List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom or Ireland, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable ...
List of New Zealand-related topics
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List
The SC Germania ...
