Cooks Landing Place 1769

Cooks Landing Place 1769 is a historic site in East Coast, North Island. Cooks Landing Place 1769 is situated nearby to the memorial Cook Monument, as well as near the peak Titirangi.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cook Monument and Titirangi.

Cook Monument

Memorial

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Cook Monument is a memorial, which is situated 270 metres north of Cooks Landing Place 1769.

Titirangi, commonly known as Kaiti Hill, is a hill and historic pā overlooking Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, New Zealand. Rising above the eastern bank of the Tūranganui River, it has long been one of the principal cultural and historical landmarks of the district.

Gisborne City Vintage Railway

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gisborne City Vintage Railway Incorporated is a railway preservation group based in Gisborne, New Zealand. Operating on part of the northern section of the mothballed Palmerston North–Gisborne Line, the group was founded in 1985. Gisborne City Vintage Railway is situated 700 metres north of Cooks Landing Place 1769.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Victoria and Kaiti.

Victoria

Quarter

Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Victoria is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Gisborne. It is located close to the shore of Poverty Bay, to the southeast of the city centre, between the mouth of the Awapuni Creek and Awapuni. The suburb was named after Queen Victoria.

Kaiti

Suburb

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Kaiti is a suburb and historic area of Gisborne in New Zealand's Gisborne District. Situated on the eastern bank of the Tūranganui River, it contains several of the most historically significant sites in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, including Titirangi, Puhi Kai Iti / Cook Landing Site, and much of the former Kaiti Block, one of the earliest Native Land Court title investigations undertaken in the district.

Gisborne

Photo: Jeanaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Gisborne is a small sunny beachside city on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It's a popular holiday spot, especially in summer, as it has a warm, dry and sunny climate, swimming and surf beaches, wineries, and a more relaxed pace of life than larger cities.

Cooks Landing Place 1769

Type: Historic site
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: East Coast, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-38.67779° or 38° 40′ 40″ south

Longitude

178.02534° or 178° 1′ 31″ east

Open location code

4VHW82CG+V4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1225167974

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=yes

GeoNames ID

6240145

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