New Zealand Shapeshifter - Monarch - Official Video
Hospital Records
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
13:55:49
The Totem Pole
Location
Gisborne New Zealand
James Cook Explorer of the bark Endeavour
The Endeavour replica sits atop a pole in Gisbornes CBD
The Gisborne Town Clock
About
Gisborne (Māori: Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa "Great
standing place of Kiwa") is a city on the East Coast of the North Island
of New Zealand.
Welcome to Gisborne City
History of the renaming of
the place
William Gisborne (13 August 1825 – 7 January 1898) was
Colonial Secretary of New Zealand 1869–1872 and Minister of Public Works
1870–1871. The city of Gisborne in New Zealand, and the township in Victoria,
Australia are named after him.
In 1769,on the 8th October Captain James Cook sailed into a bay, and laid anchor at the
entrance of a small river in Tuuranga-nui (today's Poverty Bay, near modern
Gisborne). Cook named a peninsula in this bay "Young Nick's Head"
after Nicholas Young.
Young Nicks Head
the Endeavour would have been sitting somewhere
closeby off shore
the Endeavour would have been sitting somewhere
closeby off shore
Young Nicks Head
from across the cornfields heading to Mahia Penninsula
and further south
The Event
In 1969 200 years later Canada presented this Indian
totem pole to New Zealand in October 1969 to mark the 200 bicentenary of the
arrival of Captain James Cook in Gisborne ,Poverty Bay.
The Plaque
This gift from Canada was carried to Gisborne by the
Canadian Destroyer HMCS St. Croix
Alfred Cox Park the original
site
Source/s:
Historical images
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