Ship Cove

Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in Queen Charlotte Sound part of the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. It is at the west coast of the sound, simply west of Motuara Island and Long Island. It became named with the aid of Captain James Cook on 15 January 1770 whilst he anchored HMS Endeavour there to top off substances of food, water and wood. While his deliver turned into overhauled at anchor, Cook made a headquarters on the shore, ordering the planting of vegetable gardens and production of an enclosure for pigs. Cook could return to the cove a similarly four times over the route of his first and 2nd voyages to the Pacific.

Cook's settlement changed into abandoned following his second voyage. Colonel William Wakefield, one of the founders of Wellington, additionally anchored his deliver the Tory in the cove in 1839. Approximately 1,seven-hundred acres of land at Ship Cove has been d a scenic reserve administered via the Ship Cove Scenic Reserves Board. In 2014 the authentic name of the bay become altered to Meretoto / Ship Cove, reflecting its authentic Maori name.