Gisborne is located on the sunny East Coast of the North Island and is the first city in the world to see the sun each day.
The Maori name for the East Coast region is Tairawhiti, which means “the coast upon which the sun shines across the water”.
To early Maori, the Poverty Bay area was known as Turanganui-a-Kiwa, “the stopping place of Kiwa”.
The mouth of the Turanganui River, around which Gisborne is built, is the site of what is arguably New Zealand’s most significant navigational history.
It was the landing place of the Horouta canoe from the great migration of Maori
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to New Zealand from Hawaiki.
It is also the place where Captain James Cook and his crew first set foot in New Zealand in 1769.
Here Captain James Cook and a local Maori man saluted each other with a hongi on the rock Te-Toka-a-Taiau, the first greeting between a Maori and a European.
Although the rock Te-toka-a-Taiau no longer remains, sites at Kaiti Hill, Kaiti Beach, Waikanae Beach and the magnificent canoe prow, Te Tauihu Turanga Whakamana, at Endeavour Heipipi Park, acknowledge and commemorate these voyaging histories of the people of New Zealand.
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