Endeavour Inlet looking west from Tawa Saddle

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Mount Stokes (1203 m) in the background.
'HMS Endeavour' was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific.
In 1769 she was the first european vessel to reach New Zealand since Abel Tasman's Heemskerk 127 years earlier.


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