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Written by Roderick Eime
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
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Cook's Dark Paradise
When
the world's greatest navigator needed a break from the rigours of
exploring, he headed to New Zealand's lush South Island. But his
idyllic sanctuary held a dark and terrifying secret that struck mortal
fear into his men.
The land of the long white cloud was little more than a figment of the
cartographers' imagination when Lieutenant James Cook sailed into the
eastern coastline on his way home from Tahiti in October 1769. Seizing
the opportunity to further expand his realm of exploration, Cook spent
the next seven months circumnavigating the two islands and created
charts so accurate, it took the advent of satellite mapping to improve
upon them.
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