First Map Of New Zealand.
[Deposit of Sydney, Historical Record Office.]

Intituled: Chart of New Zealand in 1769 and 1770 by Lieutenant J. Cook, commander of his Majesty's barque Endeavour. Published as the Act directs, 1st January, 1772.

The coast line from Cape Saunders is traced with seeming accuracy. Stewart Island is put down as a club-headed peninsula with a narrow neck joining the mainland, situated well inside Foveaux Straits. The insets to this neck are named respectively South-east Bay, and that on Solander side South-west Bay. Between Cape Saunders and Molyneux Bay he appears to have stood well off the land. From thence he hugged the shore to an acute point at Bench Islet on the coast of Stewart Island at the entrance to the Strait. From the outlining of the coast inside the strait we may assume he got sight of the entrance to Howell's Roads, but it must have been a very imperfect view. Ruapuke Island is not marked, although in making tracks for Trap Rocks he must have sailed in close proximity thereto. Westward of Stewart Island he made a loop-line course, at one end of which he stood well in to Sandhills Point, south-west of Te-Wae-wae Bay. That position, if correctly marked on the chart, should have opened out Foveaux as a through passage. From thence he made off shore, and, before beating up again for the land, must have been well out in the neighbourhood of, although he did not sight, Snares Islands. Dusky Bay was the next point touched at.