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| Title: | Gore's Cloud & Cape Saunders |
| Time: | 0'48" |
| Description: | The Endeavour's crew did not give up of the idea of the Great Southern Continent easily and started seeing imaginary land to the east. The Endeavour returned to the coast after a wild goose chase sighting the Cape at the entrance to Dunedin Harbour, which Cook sailed past on his southerly search. |
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| Title: | South Island Storms & the Southern Continent |
| Time: | 2'36" |
| Description: | Peter sails along the beautiful Catlin Coast and tells how Cook arrived off Stewart Island where bad weather led him to believe it was connected to the mainland, his second mistake. Cook sailed turned north at South Cape where the Crew finally accepted that there was no Great Southern Continent and that NZ was two large islands as Maori had said! |
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| Title: | Dusky Bay & the First Pakeha Settlement |
| Time: | 3'12" |
| Description: | Peter arrives at Dusky Sound which Cook visited on his second voyage in 1770, and takes us to see where the first ship in NZ was built by sealers who came and built a settlement due to Cook's reports of plentiful |
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| Title: | Astronomer's Point |
| Time: | 2'21" |
| Description: | We visit Astronomy Point in Pickersgill Harbour where the stumps of trees Cook's crew cut are still visible so they could make astronomical observations to determine latitude and longitude. Peter tells about Cook's brief encounter with a small family of Maori. |
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| Title: | Doubtful Sound |
| Time: | 1'31" |
| Description: | After weathering a huge overnight storm on the West Coast Peter manages to see Doubtful Sound and tells of the fight between Banks and Cook who refused to land. |
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| Title: | Farewell Spit & Pounamu |
| Time: | 4'01" |
| Description: | Peter has a fast trip up the coast and is amazed by the swells. Peter explains why sea routes used by Maori for trading NZ jade/greenstone changed to land trails. We pass the sands of Farewell spit, now doubled in length from Cook's time and cross Tasman Bay To D'Urville Island which Cook has seen before! |
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| Title: | Last Anchorage |
| Time: | 2'55" |
| Description: | The voyage around NZ complete, Peter stops beside the stream at Cook's last watering place in NZ and reveals how Cook's chart was astonishingly accurate. |
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| Title: | Cook's Reflections |
| Time: | 0'55" |
| Description: | Peter reflects on the significance of Cook's voyage and his own retracing the historic circumnavigation. Peter recounts Cook's prophetic thoughts on the potential colonisation of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. |
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