Story: European discovery of New Zealand

More links and websites

• The Captain Cook Society

  The society (which has a New Zealand branch) offers extensive information on James Cook’s life and voyages.

• NZ History – The exploration of New Zealand

  This site provides an introduction and links to some of the many websites devoted to early Pacific explorers, including Abel Tasman and James Cook.

• South Seas: voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific (1760–1800)

  This site, developed by Professor Paul Turnbull with the National Library of Australia and the Australian National University’s Centre for Cross-cultural Research, is a comprehensive guide to James Cook’s first voyage. Its emphasis is on the encounters between Cook and the indigenous people of the lands he visited, and includes a transcript of Cook’s journal of the voyage.

More suggestions and sources

• Anderson, Grahame. The merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2001.
• Beaglehole, J. C. The discovery of New Zealand. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1961.
• Beaglehole, J. C. The exploration of the Pacific. 3rd ed. London: A. & C. Black, 1966.
• Cowie, Winston. Conquistador puzzle trail, Tawharanui Peninsula, Rodney District: Northern Tuatara Press, 2015.
• Dunmore, John, ed. New Zealand and the French: two centuries of contact. Waikanae: Heritage, 1990.
• Salmond, Anne. The trial of the cannibal dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas. London: Allen Lane, 2003.
• Salmond, Anne. Two worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642–1772. Auckland: Viking, 1991.