Places

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 - 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: 1769

Reference: A-284-015/020

Description: Copies of drawings done on Captain Cook's first voyage to New Zealand. Show landscapes and Maori village Tegadoo was Cook's mistaken version of the Maori word for surf, te ngaru Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, foolscap size

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 - 1780 - 1773 - 1790

From: Artist unknown :Views in the South Seas [1769-1779. Drawn 1780s?]

Reference: E-329-f-006

Description: Copy of an engraving published in John Hawkesworth (1773, II, Plate 18)) after Spoering 'A fortified town or village...' from Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769. Shows a Te Puta o te Paretauhinu Pa atop a pierced rock at Mercury Bay, with two canoes in front, two further empty canoes pulled up on rocks to the right, and the Endeavour at anchor to the left. Verso shows handwritten text in Dutch (translation of this text in accompanying typescript). There is some variation in the details between this and the engraved version. The scene is at Mercury Bay, not Tolaga Bay Other Titles - A view of a fortified village built on a pierced rock in New Zealand [translation]. A fortified town or village called a hippah, built on a perforated rock at Tolaga in New Zealand. Mercury Bay Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also verso covered in text in Dutch describing the scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and holograph in album 272 x 430 mm