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… by westerly winds. Sailing along the coast, explorers Abel Tasman and James Cook observed Mt Karioi, and Cook named it …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… down the Whanganui River. On the Milford, Routeburn and Abel Tasman walks, huts and camp sites must be booked in advance. …
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Part of story: Tramping
… painted as a form of map-making. Isaac Gilsemans, on Abel Tasman’s voyage in the 1640s, and Sydney Parkinson, on …
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Part of story: Painting
… in northern New Zealand. Sailing ships The voyages of Abel Tasman in 1642–43 and James Cook in the 1760s and 1770s were …
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Part of story: Transport – overview
… to venture into the hills. Some of the walks, such as the Abel Tasman Coastal Track, the Milford Track and the Heaphy …
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Part of story: Sports and leisure
… Long Island in the Marlborough Sounds, Tonga Island in Abel Tasman National Park, Elizabeth Island in Fiordland and Ulva …
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Part of story: Nearshore islands
… designed and partly written by Beaglehole; the first, Abel Janszoon Tasman & the discovery of New Zealand , was to commemorate the tri-centenary of Tasman ’s discovery of New Zealand in 1642; the second, …
Type: Biography
… seas’, to quote the title of Curnow’s well-known poem about Abel Tasman’s discovery of New Zealand. Their two literary …
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Part of story: Arts and the nation
… Pacific was inevitable, as first encounters showed. When Abel Tasman was greeted in Golden Bay in December 1642 by ‘an …
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Part of story: Composers
… for the southern continent, sighting on 6 October what Tasman had described as 'a large land, uplifted high' – New …
Type: Biography
… a different type of collective housing at Awaroa, in Abel Tasman National Park, where he, Clare and a group of their …
Type: Biography
… Department of Internal Affairs to mark the tercentenary of Abel Tasman’s voyage to New Zealand, was accompanied by music by … award-winning volume of new poems, The Bells of Saint Babel’s, appeared. In his later years Curnow seemed …
Type: Biography