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The first voyage was in New Zealand waters during late 1769 and early 1770.
This is a list of New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
places named by 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 ...
. Cook was the first European navigator to circumnavigate and chart the archipelago. He chose names from dull to droll to descriptive, from metaphorical to a narrative of events, or to honour people and to record the existing Māori language
Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and ...
names of places. The list below is in the order described in Cook's journals of his first and second voyages to the Pacific.
First voyage
The first voyage was in New Zealand waters during late 1769 and early 1770.
Second Voyage
In the autumn of 1773, Cook and the crew of ''Resolution'' recuperated in Dusky Sound / Tamatea, after 122 days at sea in the Pacific and Southern Ocean.See also
*List of Australian places named by James Cook
This is a list of Australian places named by James Cook. James Cook was the first navigator to chart most of the Australian east coast, one of the last major coastlines in the world unknown to Europeans at the time. Cook named many bays, capes ...
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