James Cook's map of New Zealand - One of the most important maps in New Zealand's history and the first complete map of the two island's coastlines. Made during Cook's first voyage it shows the track of the Endeavour with dates

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"Australia's birth certificate" : Joan Blaeu's Archipelagi Orientalis Sive Asiaticus (1663), the earliest known map of Australia and New Zealand. Follows Tasman's voyages of 1642-43 and 1644, on which Australia's mapping of was based until James Cook mapped the eastern coast

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New Zealand now (left) VS New Zealand as seen but ship by Captain James Cook when he "discovered" the country

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Cook chart of New Zealand 1770

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Captain Cook's Route Around New Zealand

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