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One of de Surville’s anchors

One of de Surville’s anchors
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One of de Surville’s anchors
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Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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In December 1769, as James Cook was rounding the northern tip of the North Island, the French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville was in the same waters. After missing what would have been a historic meeting with Cook, de Surville anchored in Doubtless Bay. In a storm his ship, the St Jean Baptiste, lost three anchors. Two of them were recovered from the seabed in the 1970s. They are among the oldest relics of early European contact with New Zealand. Here a diver examines one of the anch...

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Date created
4 March 2009
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1436/one-of-de-survilles-anchors

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