Meretoto / Ship Cove
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Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. It is located near the entrance of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, west of nearby Motuara Island and Long Island.
View across the sound to Motuara Island from Ship Cove in 2004
Second voyage of James Cook
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The second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, commissioned by the British government with advice from the Royal Society, was designed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to fina
Meretoto / Ship Cove
…planting of vegetable gardens and construction of an enclosure for pigs. Cook would return to the cove a further five times over the course of his first, second and third voyages to the Pacific Ocean, In other parts of New Zealand the contact was brief, but here it was sustained. The publication of Cook’s First…
Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay
Cook in Antarctica drawn by William Hodges
Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, Georg, by John Francis Rigaud.