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Kōrero: Open water swimming

Triumphant arrival

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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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Nancy Swarbrick, Open water swimming – Early New Zealand swimmers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6892/triumphant-arrival (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2016.