Captain Cook Landing Place, Gisborne, New Zealand
By Val
@valmnz (17099)
New Zealand
February 3, 2018 10:29pm CST
On our recent trip to Gisborne we visited the Captain Cook statue on the waterfront near the wharf.
Captain James Cook was a British navigator and explorer who was responsible for charting most of the New Zealand coastline. In 1769 he sailed in his ship Endeavour to observe the passage of the planet Venus across the sun.
From there he set sail to discover what was believed to be the great southern continent. The first sighting of New Zealand was on 6 October 1769 by Nicholas Young, a young surgeon's lad. Landfall was made at the mouth of the Turanganui River on 8 October.
This area is now known as the Cook Landing Site National Historic Reserve.
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@xFiacre (12594)
• Ireland
4 Feb 18
@valmnz That’s the era in which I ought to have lived - sailing ship and adventure and heading off into the unknown. Now there’s travel guides to everywhere and all the adventures been sucked out of travel. Even in the 70s travel exuded a whiff of romance and danger. Now it’s all so bland. Now I’ve gone and depressed myself again.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
5 Feb 18
We never saw this although we did get to see the mountain named after him. I just surfed and see what I found. A big list of so many things named after him
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of places named after Captain James Cook (1728-1779), the British explorer. Contents Countries[edit] Country subdivisions[edit] Towns[edit] Geographic features[edit] Extraterr
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
5 Feb 18
@valmnz Here in India too the names of so many edifices are being changed specially those that existed during the British Rule.
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Feb 18
I would like to visit that spot.
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