Kōrero: Open water swimming

Triumphant arrival (2 o 2)

Triumphant arrival

Some members of the swimming team (from left, Christine Harris, Philip Rush, Kaine Thompson) come ashore at D’Urville Island, along with Olive Baldwin (right foreground), the Kāpiti Coast historian who researched the route of Hinepoupou’s swim. Joy Hope, a descendant of Hinepoupou, stands at the stern of the support vessel stands.

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Fields Publishing House in association with the Kapiti D'Urville Trust
Photograph by Winton Cleal

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Nancy Swarbrick, 'Open water swimming - Early New Zealand swimmers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6892/triumphant-arrival (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006, updated 1 Feb 2016