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Able Tasman becomes first European to find the North Island (‘Statenland’)
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Captain Cook mapped the whole of Aotearoa in series of 3 voyages, 1769-1777
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in 1840 the Europeans settled on the plains and whaling ships were operating out of lyttelton by 1850
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signed to solidify the relationship between the maori and the europeans.
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the British arrived 6 days before the french to claim the land as territory of the british empire.
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The Canterbury Association founded in 1848 and guided by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley.
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The Bridal Path was built by Captain James Thomas cut the track. It was tricky to cut as there were many trees and rocks on the Port Hills.
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the Cressy was the last of the first four ships to arrive in canterbury to colonise the land.
