Story: Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes

Cook memorial, Gisborne

Cook memorial, Gisborne

This monument marks the place where James Cook first landed in New Zealand, in October 1769. The site is also recognised as the landing place of the Horouta and Te Ikaroa-a-Rauru waka (canoes), which brought many of the ancestors of the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa people to the country.

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Nick Tūpara, 'Tūranganui-a-Kiwa tribes - Contacts and conflicts', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/2319/cook-memorial-gisborne (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Nick Tūpara, published 8 Feb 2005, updated 1 Mar 2017