Cape Campbell, ''Te Karaka'' in the
Māori language
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, is in
Marlborough
Marlborough may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
** Marlborough College, public school
* Marlborough School, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England
* The Marlborough Science Academy in Hertfordshire, England
Austral ...
, New Zealand, on the northeastern coast of the
South Island
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. It lies at the southern end of
Clifford Bay, northeast of
Ward
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, and southeast of
Blenheim. Cape Campbell lies close to the
salt
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
works at
Lake Grassmere
Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau is a New Zealand waituna-type lagoon in the northeastern South Island, close to Cook Strait. The lake is used for the production of salt.
Geography
Lake Grassmere, south of Blenheim and south of the mouth of ...
.
It is the third-easternmost point of the South Island, at a longitude of about 174
o16.5' East.
(The two easternmost points are
West head (it is the western shore of the opening to
Tory Channel
Tory Channel / Kura Te Au is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. Inter-island ferries normally use it as the principal channel between Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds.
Tory Channel / Kura Te Au lies ...
- the opposing shore being on
Arapaoa Island), and
Cape Jackson (between the entrances to Queen Charlotte Sound and Port Gore), both at a longitude of 174
o19' east.)
It was named by Captain
James Cook
James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...
after Captain (later Vice-Admiral)
John Campbell, who had been a strong supporter of Cook's as Observer for the Royal Society.
[Beaglehole, John Cawte. The Life of Captain James Cook, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California (1974).]
The
Cape Campbell Lighthouse
Cape Campbell Lighthouse is a lighthouse at Cape Campbell in the Marlborough region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.
The original lighthouse at this site was first lit on 1 August 1870. Howev ...
has guided ships rounding the cape since 1870.
The third night of the
Cape Campbell Track is spent at Cape Campbell, where the lighthouse keepers once stayed. When walking the Cape Campbell Track, a four-day private walking track, walkers retrace part of the original packtrack used by the lighthouse keepers to obtain vital supplies from the Flaxbourne Station Homestead where the first telegraph office stood.
References
External links
Cape Campbellat Land Information New Zealand.
Headlands of the Marlborough Region
Cook Strait
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