In October 1769 Cook and his crew first sighted the east coast of the North Island, south of present-day Gisborne. He named the prominent headland on the south side of Poverty Bay Young Nicks Head, after the cabin boy Nicholas Young, who was the first to sight land from the Endeavour.
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Photograph by Lloyd Homer
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