List of New Zealand places named by James Cook
This is a list of New Zealand places named by James Cook.
Cook was the first European navigator to circumnavigate and chart the archipelago.
He chose names from dull to droll to descriptive, from metaphorical to a narrative of events, or to honour people and to record the existing Māori language names of places.
[1] The list below is in the order described in Cook's journals of his first and second voyages to the Pacific.
(Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay) (Table Cape / Kahutara Point) (Portland Island) (Cape Kidnappers / Te Kauwae-a-Māui) (Anaura Bay) (East Island / Whangaokeno) (Wharekahika / Hicks Bay) (Whakaari / White Island) (Moutohora Island or Whale Island) (Mount Edgecumbe / Putauaki (Mayor Island / Tuhua) (Waihou River / Firth of Thames) (Cape Colville) (Great Barrier Island) (Cape Rodney) (Poor Knights Islands) (Cape Brett Peninsula /Rākaumangamanga) (Cape Wiwiki) Cavalli Islands (Te Nunuhe Rock / Whale Rock) (Knuckle Point) (Tohoraha / Mount Camel) (Rangaunu Bay) (Kaipara Harbour[11]) (Motutakupu Island / Gannet Island)) (Albatross Point) (Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont) (Sugar Loaf Islands / Ngā Motu) (Kapiti Island) (Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui) (Meretoto / Ship Cove) (Long Island) (Endeavour Inlet) (Anaho) Motuara Island) (North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui) (South Island or Te Waipounamu) (Cook Strait) Cape Terawhiti Cape Koamaru (Cape Palliser) (Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay) (Cape Campbel) / Te Karaka) (Kaikōura Peninsula) (Gore Bay, New Zealand) (Banks Peninsula) (Foveaux Strait) (Ruapuke Island) (North Trap and South Trap) (South Cape / Whiore) (Solander Islands / Hautere) (Dusky Sound) (Doubtful Sound / Patea) (in vicinity of Big Bay) (Cascade Point) (Jackson Bay / Okahu) (Southern Alps) (Stephens Island / Takapourewa) (Golden Bay / Mohua and Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere) 40°59′56″S 173°28′09″E / 40.99889°S 173.46917°E / -40.99889; 173.46917 (Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere) In the autumn of 1773, Cook and the crew of Resolution recuperated in Dusky Sound / Tamatea, after 122 days at sea in the Pacific and Southern Ocean.
