Cooks Section Video

Title:

Maori Deaths

Time:

4'43"

Description:

Cook and crew land at Poverty Bay and things go badly during first contact with Maori.

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Red Coat

Time:

1'02"

Description:

Nick Tupara explains how the Marine's Redcoat, left as a token of apology, became an important Taonga.

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Kidnappers

Time:

1'37"

Description:

The Endeavour leaves, sails south past Cape Kidnappers named after another conflict with Maori and seeing no safe anchorage turns northwards.

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Cook's Cove

Time:

3'28"

Description:

The Endeavour finds a place to replenish, Cook finds Scurvy grass, Banks collects many new plants and Tupaia establishes good relations with local Maori.

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Resolution

Time:

3'13"

Description:

The RNZNavy's hydrographic ship Resolution continues Cook's charting tradition, rounds East Cape and visits White Island.

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East Cape & Bay of Plenty

Time:

2'46"

Description:

The Endeavour's crew has further encounters with Maori near Whakatane, see the first double waka and are amazed at richness of the land.

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Obsidian & Mayor Island

Time:

2'02"

Description:

The source of this valuable cutting rock, traded by Maori throughout the Pacific and how the Court of Aldermen Islands were named.

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Transit of Mercury, Sextant, Shot Maori

Time:

3'22"

Description:

Cook observes Mercury, fixes NZ on the chart, a sextant demonstration and further encounters with local Maori.

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