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Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
In 1841 New Zealand became a British colony followed by a period of wars. New Zealand gradually became more self-governing and achieved the relative independence of a dominion in 1907. In 1788 the colony of New South Wales was founded with a commission that technically included responsibility for New Zealand. In practice this had little ...
Cook's map of New Zealand Māori war canoe with triangle sail drawn by Herman Spöring during Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Cook reached New Zealand on 6 October 1769, leading only the second group of Europeans known to do so (after Abel Tasman over a century earlier, in 1642).
The Shotover River (Māori: Kimiākau) is located in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. [1] The name correctly suggests that this 75-kilometre (47 mi) long river is fast flowing, with numerous rapids.
The longest river in New Zealand is the Waikato River with a length of 425 kilometres (264 miles). The largest river by rate of flow is the Clutha River / Mata-Au with a mean discharge of 613 cubic metres per second (21,600 cu ft/s). [1] The shortest river is claimed to be the Tūranganui River in Gisborne at 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) long. [2]
A 2014 article in the Journal of Archaeological Science claimed to have found "New Zealand's oldest shipwreck" in Kaipara Harbour, which the authors dated to the late 17th or early 18th century using radiocarbon and dendrochronological techniques, and suggested the wreck was evidence of further Dutch exploration in the period between Tasman and ...
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Abel Tasman was born around 1603 in Lutjegast, a small village in the province of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands.The oldest available source mentioning him is dated 27 December 1631 when, as a seafarer living in Amsterdam, the 28-year-old became engaged to marry 21-year-old Jannetje Tjaers, of Palmstraat in the Jordaan district of the city.