New Zealand - Oriental Bay - The Parade Street Scene, Oriental Bay, Wellington - 1941 - Unknown Photographer - Originally published in "The New Zealand Freelance Annual 1941" #337666 Oriental Bay - Oriental Bay was originally known as Duppa, after the first and only resident at the time, George Duppa. - George Duppa renamed the area Oriental Bay after the ship that he arrived in New Zealand on in 1840. - Originally farmland and was used as a quarantine with a nurse and tent on the beach and by whalers. - Settlement of the area started in the 1880's.