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Date: 1769 - 1770

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779

Reference: MapColl-830atc/1770/Acc.1368

Description: 1770 map of Lieut. James Cook (Commander) on His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour. Map shows the North Island, Cook's Strait, the Endeavour's trek around the North Island. Identifies certain areas such as North Cape, Bay of Islands, Cape Colville, Bay of Plenty, East Cape, Hawke Bay, Cape Kidnappers, Cape Turnagain, Castle Point, Cape Pallisser, and Cape Terrawhitte. Also shows the top of the South Island and Queen Charlotte Sound, Cape Farewell, Cloudy Bay. Other Titles - Zealand Other Titles - North Island Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 31 x 24 cm

Date: 1769 - 1770

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779

Reference: MapColl-830atc/1770/Acc.1369

Description: 1770 map of Lieut. James Cook (Commander) on His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour. Map shows the South Island, Cook's Strait, the Endeavour's trek around the South Island. Identifies certain areas such as Cape Farewell, Blind Bay, Admirality Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, Cloudy Bay, Snowey Mountains, Banks Island (Peninsular) Cape Saunders, South Cape, The Southern Alps and Doubtful Harbour. Other Titles - Zealand Other Titles - South Island Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, scale indeterminable, 31 x 24 cm

Date: 1769 - 1770

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779; Pickersgill, Richard, 1749-1779

Reference: MapColl-830aj/1770/Acc.8212

Description: 1770 map of New Zealand, drawn by Master's mate Richard Pickersgill while on the Endeavour, captained by Lieut. James Cook. Map shows the North and South (Middle) Island, Cook's Strait, Identifies certain areas although the map is a photography of a copy of a copy and very hard to read. Can recognise Cape Campbell, Palliser and Cape Terra-wette. See Spencer, J.R.S. Archifacts, 1985/1, p. 8, item 34. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 48.5 x 61 cm

Date: 1869 - 1956 - 1779 - 1958

From: Gore, Ross Digby, 1904-1981 :It happened in New Zealand. [208 original drawings. Late 1940s and early 1950s].

Reference: B-140-018

Description: Six-panelled account giving further information about Nicholas Young, his life and premature death in Hawaii and his association with Captain Cook. These illustrations were reproduced in New Zealand newspapers during the late 1940s and 1950s. The newspapers included The Evening Post, Auckland Star, Christchurch Star Sun, Taranaki Herald, Southern Cross, Students' Digest, Greymouth Evening Star, Evening Star (Sports) Dunedin, and the Southland Daily News. In 1953, 48 of them were collected and published as a booklet called 'It happened in New Zealand' by Ross Gore. Information supplied by a great-niece of Nicholas Young to the cartoonist and supplementing his lack of knowledge displayed in a previous cartoon (B-140-017) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 330 x 565 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Jenny Gibbs, of Auckland, in 1995.

Date: 1769

By: Cook, James, 1728-1779

Reference: qMS-0525

Description: Quantity: 1 volume(s) (7 leaves). Physical Description: 34 cm. Grey cloth.

Date: 1769 - 1770

Reference: MapColl-830atc/1770/Acc.5078

Description: French version of the New Zealand map by James Cook (contemporary original etching) showing the route of the Endeavour around the islands. Shows some of the named areas from Cook's map. Shows Detroit de Cook, Baye den Islen, Bay de Tologa and Kidnappers. Shows Tavai in the South Island and the Southern Alps (Les Alpers du Sud). Has 'Provenant de Ternay' in bottom left hand corner Other Titles - New Zealand Other Titles - showing the route of the Endeavour Inscriptions: Stamped Bib Nat. - Biblioteque Nationale de France [Paris]; Stamped Dept. des Cart. pl. ... de la Marine Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photograph of etching, scale indeterminable, 43 x 35 cm. Provenance: Donated by New Zealand Embassy, Paris, via External Affairs, July 10 1961.

Date: 1938 - 1642 - 1769 - 1952 - 1643 - 1770

From: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs Centennial Publications Branch :Maps from Historical Atlas

Reference: MapColl-CHA-1/1/4-Acc.35912

Description: Shows Tasman's routes of 1642-1643, Cook's route of 1769-1770 and highlights of later discoveries. Extended Title - Illustrating Tasman's Traverse of 1642-1643; Cook's circumnavigation of 1769-1770, and highlights of local discovery thereafter. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Coloured drawing on greaseproof paper. Scale. [ca 1: 2 300 000]. 82 x 56 cm. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1769 - 1770

Reference: MapColl-830atc/1769-1770/Acc.19338

Description: Italian version of the New Zealand map of Captain Cook (contemporary original etching). The following statement was typed underneath the map: Particular interest was waked for N.Z. in the end of 18th century in the grand Duchy of Toscany because a Cook vessel landed for some days in the Leghorn harbour. (With the compliments of A.G. Segre). Other Titles - Map of New Zealand 1785 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy of etching, scale indeterminable, 28 x 22 cm.

Date: 1769

By: Pickersgill, Richard, 1749-1779; Cook, James, 1728-1779

Reference: MapColl-832.1aj/[1769]/Acc.12471

Description: A chart of the coast of the North Island, New Zealand between Bay of Plenty ans Tolaga Bay. The map shows soundings along coastline and has information about population, land use and contact with Maori. Other Titles - South Continent discovered Majesty's A hand written note under the title says "This chart was taken before this country was found to be an Island". Table showing the longitude of several places settled and magnetic variation for various places are also inscribed. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 69 x 97 cm.

Date: 8 Dec 1768-22 Jun 1770

By: Hicks, Zachary, 1739-1771

Reference: qMS-0954

Description: Log written by Hicks on the voyage of scientific discovery of the `Endeavour' to New Zealand, 1768-1771. The first page of the log contains copies of two letters by James Cook to the Admiralty relating to Cook's vessel the `Grenville' which had its rig changed in Debtford in 1764. Also three letters to Cook from the Admiralty Office, the Navy Office and the Victualling Office. At some point this page has been tipped into the log. First entry in the log is Thursday the 8th December 1768 recording the departure of the `Endeavour' from Rio Janerio. Daily entries include course position of the vessel, wind and weather conditions, bearings of the ship when at anchor, and general observations of life on deck as the ship made the trip around Cape Horne to King George Island then onto the South Pacific. Continues with the mapping of New Zealand and voyage to the eastern coastline of Australia. On 11th June 1770 the `Endeavour' ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and eventually made its way to a river mouth (Endeavour River). Repairs were carried out over the next seven weeks. Last entry in the log is Friday 22nd June 1770. The log does not include the page containing entries for the crew's first sighting of New Zealand, October 1769. Publication - Further information regarding Hick's log is published in `The Journals of Lieutenant Cook's Officers', by James Cook. Other - Page(s) for the log entries for 14-24 January 1769, 13-18 August 1769, and 6-15 October 1769 are missing from the manuscript, either cut or torn out. See reference in `Cook Journals Vol 1, The voyage of the Endeavour', edited by J C Beaglehole, 1955. Zachary Hicks (Hickes) was a Royal Navy officer and second-in-command (second lieutenant) on Cook's 1768 voyage to New Zealand on the Endeavour. Hicks Bay in the Gisborne region is named after Zachary Hicks. The Endeavour sailed into the bay on the 31st October 1769 where they were meet by two canoes of fifty Māori each who dared the English to fight. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (134 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (33cm; cream vellum boards in navy morocco case) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Bernard Quatrich in London, in 1900, for £110