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Memorials to James Cook

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Gisborne Tolaga Bay Anaura Bay D‘Urville Is. Ship Cove Motuara Is. Tauranga Ōkaihau Auckland Hamilton Foxton PalmerstonNorth Mercury Bay Christchurch Astronomer Pt.,Dusky Sound Motuarohia Is. Thames Hastings Waipukurau Wellington Levin Leamington Timaru Pukerau Timpanys Netherton Whitianga Kōpū Gisborne Tolaga Bay Anaura Bay D‘Urville Is. Ship Cove Motuara Is. Tauranga Ōkaihau Auckland Hamilton Foxton PalmerstonNorth Mercury Bay Christchurch Astronomer Pt.,Dusky Sound Motuarohia Is. Thames Hastings Waipukurau Wellington Levin Leamington Timaru Pukerau Timpanys Netherton Whitianga Kōpū Statues/plaques Streets

In his circumnavigation of New Zealand, James Cook landed at many points. A large number of these sites, from the Bay of Islands in the north to Dusky Sound in the south, are marked by memorial plaques, and there are statues of Cook in Gisborne and Christchurch. Sites of plaques and memorials are shown on this map, as are places with a Cook Street.

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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/en/map/1433/memorials-to-james-cook (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2016.