CookStrait. 1642: Abel Tasman mistook CookStrait for a bight. 1769: James Cook established it is a strait. 1822: Ngāti Toa migrated to CookStrait region
(Ipomoea batatas) growing season. Tasman named the area "Murderers' Bay". The expedition then sailed north, sighting CookStrait, which separates the North and
border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterway between the Great Australian Bight and the Tasman Sea, and is also the only maritime
visit there, following the first European discovery by Abel Tasman 127 years earlier. Cook and his crew spent the following six months charting the New