Location of Poverty Bay

Poverty Bay is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay. It stretches for 10 kilometres from Young Nick's Head in the southwest to Tuahine Point in the northeast. The city of Gisborne is located on the northern shore of the bay. The name is often used by extension to refer to the entire area surrounding the city of Gisborne. Image File history File links NZ-Poverty_B.png Location map of Poverty Bay, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links NZ-Poverty_B.png Location map of Poverty Bay, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, the other being the South Island. ... NASA satellite photo of Hawke Bay Location of Hawke Bay Hawke Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. ... Young Nicks Head is a headland at the southern end of Poverty Bay in New Zealands North Island. ... For other uses of Gisborne see Gisborne (disambiguation). ...

The first European known to have set foot in New Zealand, Captain James Cook, did so here on October 7, 1769. This first meeting led to the deaths of 6 local Maori during skirmishes with the crew, due to a misinterpretation of the traditional Maori challenge. Cook was unable to gain many of the provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it its name. James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1868 Te Kooti, a Maori 'rebel' leader, landed at Whareongaonga Bay, near Young Nick's Head in Poverty Bay, with 300 odd mostly Hauhau warriors with women and children, in the schooner "Rifleman". Having overcome the crew without bloodshed and made an escape from the Chatham Islands where he and these Hauhau Maori were incarcerated without trial. From there he ventured inland to wage guerilla war on the armed constabulary and sympathetic Maori for several years, as well as several raids on settlers and antipathetic Maori villages. Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (c. ...

Poverty Bay is actually one of the more fertile areas of New Zealand and famous for its Chardonnay, fruit, vegetables and avocados, with abundant sunshine and fertile alluvial soil. Oak-aged Chardonnay is particularly popular in the United States. ...

Coordinates: 38°42′S 177°58′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...