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  • The Captain Cook Society

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

  • New Zealand Map Society

    The New Zealand Map Society’s website includes information about the maps and charts of New Zealand drawn by early European visitors.

  • NZHistory.net.nz – 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.

    • 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.



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