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.

Zoom to or Drag and Drop an area of interest
Use the slider to select the decade of interest
Click button "Search this area" to see relevant survey photo centres
Use tick boxes to see surveys of interest, Click on photo centres to see details
To select and request photos, scroll down and click "Select photo centres". Then click and drag box from the bottom to the top over required photo centers. Click "Add to request".
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.

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Filter by Year

NZ Island	NZ Region	Region/District	Locality	Year	Month	Num Frames	Scale	Neg Type	Remarks	Quality
North Island	Kapiti Coast District	Kapiti Coast District	Paraparaumu – Raumati Beach	1966	2	7	16200	B/W-9	Coastal Run (Cloud East Of Sh1)	Good
North Island	Lower Hutt City	Lower Hutt	Maungaraki	1966	2	6	6000	B/W-9	Maungaraki Suburb	Good
South Island	Timaru District	Timaru District	Motukaika	1966	2	6	12550	B/W-9	Evans Crossin, Pareora Gorge/Pareora Crossing Rds Area	Good
South Island	Christchurch City	Christchurch	Cashmere	1966	2	35	4000	B/W-9	Cashmere Hills	Good
North Island	Wellington City	Wellington	Johnsonville	1966	2	6	13000	B/W-9	Granada Village Area	Good
North Island	Kapiti Coast District	Kapiti Coast District	Waikanae	1966	2	29	8000	B/W-9	Waikanae Township	Good
North Island	Kapiti Coast District	Kapiti Coast District	Waikanae River	1966	2	5	16600	B/W-9	Reikorangi Rd Area To River Mouth (Cloud Inland)	Good
North Island	Taupo District	Rotorua/Taupo Districts	Ohakuri	1966	2	1	6050	B/W-9	Northern End, Lake Ohakuri	Good
North Island	Rotorua District	Rotorua/Taupo Districts	Atiamuri	1966	2	1	6000	B/W-9	Atiamuri Township	Good
North Island	Taupo District	Rotorua/Taupo District	Ohakuri	1966	2	33	6100	B/W-9	Lake Ohakuri	Good
North Island	Ruapehu District	Ruapehu Diistrict	Lake Moawhango	1966	2	8	9000	B/W-9	Moawhango Upper Dam Site	Good
North Island	Ruapehu District	Ruapehu District	Taumarunui	1966	2	25	8000	B/W-9	Taumarunui Township	Good