Poverty Bay (bay)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Item
Poverty Bay - Waipawa Valley from the head of the Bay, 1870
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089A/2
Scope and Contents
253 x 192 mm. A view looking over the valley from a thickly vegetated hillside, with two men sitting in the foreground. Gisborne, situated at the north shore of the Bay, was the spot where Captain Cook first set foot on New Zealand soil in October 1769. He gave the Bay its name after his welcome there, having to kill four Maoris after a hostile reception.
Dates:
1870
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