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1450
The Moa had been killed off
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Captain James Cook in his ship the Endeavour first sighted the Canterbury peninsula.
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the Ngāi Tūāhuriri sub-tribe of Ngāi Tahu were in control of the coast from the Hurunui River in the north to Lake Ellesmere in the south.
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sailors from the sealing ship Governor Bligh landed that Europeans first set foot on Banks Peninsula.
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Captain William Wiseman, a flax trader, named the harbour (now known as Lyttelton Harbour) Port Cooper, after one of the owners of the Sydney trading firm, Cooper & Levy.
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Captain William Rhodes first visited
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Captain George Hempelman set up a whaling station on-shore at Peraki on Banks Peninsula.
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Caption William Rhodes came back and landed a herd of 50 cattle near Akaroa.
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Major Thomas Bunbury arrived on the HMS Herald to collect the signatures of the Ngāi Tahu chiefs for the Treaty of Waitangi.
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William and John Deans arrived and established a farm at Pūtaringamotu.