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Kōrero: European discovery of New Zealand

Cook stamps

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Cook stamps

James Cook has appeared regularly on New Zealand stamps. The two-shilling stamp of the 1935 pictorial issue showed Cook being greeted by Māori on his first landing at Poverty Bay on 8 October 1769. This scene first appeared on one of the stamps issued to mark the Christchurch Exhibition in 1906.

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New Zealand Post

Reference: 1935 Pictorials stamp issue

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John Wilson, European discovery of New Zealand – Cook’s achievement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/postage-stamp/1432/cook-stamps (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2016.