Search New Zealands Historic Negative Library
Search the most comprehensive historic aerial photo library in New Zealand. Upload your area of interest, filter by decade, preview imagery, and build your photo request directly from the map below.
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Zoom to or Drag and Drop an area of interest
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Use the slider to select the decade of interest
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Click button "Search this area" to see relevant survey photo centres
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Use tick boxes to see surveys of interest, Click on photo centres to see details
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To select and request photos, scroll down and click "Select photo centres". Then click and drag box over required photo centers. Click "Add to request".
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Finally complete the request form with your details and we will get in touch. Cost estimates will vary depending on the source of imagery and the required products.
Aerial Surveys has an extensive photographic library that contains images dating back to the 1950s. Prior to 2007 Aerial Surveys also owned the renowned Whites Aviation photographic library which has now been taken over by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. The public can now access Whites Aviation imagery for free. Click here for Whites Aviation Search
The map above contains the largest catalogue of New Zealand Crown Imagery (Includes NZAM imagery) and Aerial Surveys (ASL) aerial photography. The Crown Imagery archive is managed by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Most of the crown archive but not all is available for download on RetroLens. We've taken the time to make this data more easily searchable. In addition to this Aerial Surveys offers services to Ortho rectify these scans, create ground models and vector layers.
Aerial Surveys archive contains a number of surveys not found in the crown archives. Our Archive is not currently scanned but where possible we have mapped the photo centres. On request these negatives can be requested, scanned and provided in a digital format.
Note we do have more surveys that we have not mapped the photo centres for. These can be searched in the table below the map on this page.
Search All Our Negatives
The Catalogue below contains a list of Negatives that Aerial Surveys has in storage. The catalogue has been made searchable so users can discover imagery of interest. Aerial Surveys also has an extensive library of digital imagery which were are in the process of making discoverable. Aerial Surveys provides services to Ortho Rectify images and Photogrammetric Mapping.
Disclaimer: From time to time you may notice spelling errors or incorrect labels in this list. The cleaning of this data is an ongoing process. ASL will continue to resolve these issues as they are brought to our attention. There are records with and without flight plans, mapped and unmapped photo centers which will impact response times for some requests.
NZ Island | NZ Region | Region/District | Locality | Year | Month | Num Frames | Scale | Neg Type | Remarks | Quality | Mapped |
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North Island | Auckland | Auckland | Owairaka | 1949 | 12 | 1 | 6000 | COL-9 | Houses, O'Donnell Area | Good | |
North Island | Auckland | Auckland | Avondale | 1949 | 12 | 1 | 6000 | COL-9 | Houses Holbrook Area | Good | |
North Island | Auckland | Auckland | Onehunga | 1949 | 12 | 2 | 6000 | COL-9 | Houses, Jordan, State Rd Areas | Good | |
North Island | Waikato District | Waikato | Lake Karapiro | 1953 | 3 | 1 | B/W-5 | Lake Karapiro | Good | ||
South Island | Tasman District | Tasman District | Riwaka | 1954 | 3 | 1 | B/W | Mosaic – Riwaka River | Good | ||
North Island | Auckland | Auckland | Waikato | 1954 | 10 | 50 | COL-6 | Flooding, Pukekohe Area | Good | ||
South Island | Tasman District | Tasman District | Wai-Iti River | 1955 | 5 | 1 | B/W | Mosaic – Wai-Iti River | Good | ||
South Island | Tasman District | Tasman District | Tadmor River | 1955 | 5 | 1 | B/W | Mosaic – Tadmor River | Good | ||
South Island | Tasman District | Tasman District | Motueka River | 1955 | 5 | 1 | B/W | Mosaic – North Rd-Kohatu To Wangapeka River | Good | ||
North Island | Auckland | Auckland | 1955 | 6 | 2 | B/W-5 | Shell Tanker, No.925, H61-350 | Good | |||
South Island | Tasman District | Tasman District | Hamama | 1955 | 7 | 1 | B/W | Copy Neg, Confuence Of Waingaro – Takaka Rivers Mosaic | Good | ||
South Island | Nelson City | Nelson | Wakapuaka/ Whangamoa | 1955 | 7 | 1 | B/W | Mosaic – Wakapuaka & Whangamoa Rivers | Good |