Nicholas Young (sailor)
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Nicholas Young was a British cabin boy aboard the Endeavour during Captain James Cook's first voyage of discovery. In 1769, Cook named the headland Young Nick's Head in Poverty Bay, New Zealand after
Bronze statue of "Young Nick" at Waikanae Beach, Gisborne.
Young Nick's Head
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Te Kurī also known as Young Nick's Head is a prominent headland at the southern entrance to Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
Nicholas Young (sailor)
…born c. 1757) was a British cabin boy aboard the Endeavour during Captain James Cook's first voyage of discovery. In 1769, Cook named the headland Young Nick's Head in Poverty Bay, New Zealand after him. In The Remarkable Story of Andrew Swan, it is stated that Young hailed from Greenock, on the Clyde. Young was…
Young Nick's Head from Kaiti Beach