History
Long before Abel Tasman sheltered on the east coast of D’Urville Island in 1642 (more than 100 years before James Cook blew through in 1770), Maori traders and war parties knew the Marlborough area as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui. Cook named Queen Charlotte Sound; his detailed reports made the area the best-known sheltered anchorage in the southern hemisphere. In 1827 French navigator Jules Dumont d’Urville discovered the narrow strait now known as French Pass. His officers named the island just to the north in his honour. In the same year a whaling station was established at Te Awaiti in Tory Channel, which brought about the first permanent European settlement in the district.
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