It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

The crash was witnessed by many passengers on an inter-island Cook Strait ferry.

The two main islands are separated by Cook Strait, 24 km wide at its narrowest point, but requiring a 70-km ferry trip to cross.

Interisland Line's Arahura ( ferry ) | Arahura in the Marlborough Sounds after crossing the Cook Strait.

* Cook Strait Rail Ferries from NZ History online

* The dolphin Pelorus Jack is first sighted in Cook Strait, New Zealand.

Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.

Consequently, Bering's name has since been used for the Bering Strait ( named by Captain James Cook despite knowledge of Dezhnev's earlier expedition ), the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge.

Cook Strait in New Zealand may be capable of generating 5. 6GW even though the total energy available in the flow is 15GW

* Cook Strait, separating the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui ) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.

It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean.

British seafaring Captain James Cook, midway through his third and final voyage of exploration in 1778, sailed along the west coast of North America aboard the, mapping the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait.

Cook Strait is the strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand.

A view from the summit of Mount Kaukau across Cook Strait to the Marlborough Sounds in the distance.

In Māori legend, Cook Strait was discovered by Kupe the navigator.

Kupe followed in his canoe a monstrous octopus called Te Wheke-a-Muturangi across Cook Strait and destroyed it in Tory Channel or at Pātea.

When Dutch explorer Abel Tasman first saw New Zealand in 1642, he thought Cook Strait was a bight closed to the east.

Cook Strait attracted European settlers in the early 19th century.

During the 1820s Te Rauparaha lead a Māori migration to, and the conquest and settlement of, the Cook Strait region.

At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait stretched from Taranaki to Cape Campbell, so these early towns all clustered around " Cook Strait " ( or " Cook's Strait ", in the pre-Geographic Board usage of the times ) as the central feature and central waterway of the new colony.

Although Cook Strait is only 24 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, the ferry journey covers 70 kilometres.

* 1962: Cook Strait rail ferry service begins.

Requires a ferry crossing across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton.

She included a reference to the port in her short story " The Voyage " ( in the collection The Garden Party ), which is " an account of a trip to Picton from Wellington on the Cook Strait ferry ".

Since 1989, Pelorus Jack has been used as a symbol for the Interislander, a ferry service across the Cook Strait, and is incorporated into the livery of the ships in the fleet.

Cape Terawhiti seen from on board the Cook Strait ferry.

The company operated a daily ferry service across Cook Strait, linking the North and South Islands.

Cook Strait Ferry collectively refers to the ferry services plying between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand.

Cook on the Endurance ( 1912 ship ) | Endurance preparing a penguin for consumption

A Māori Chief with tattoos ( Tā moko | moko ) seen by Cook and his crew

Portrait of Captain James Cook, by Nathaniel Dance-Holland | Nathaniel Dance

November 26: James Cook | Captain Cook lands on Maui ( island ) | Maui.

April 13: James Cook | Cook in Tahiti on HM Bark Endeavour | Endeavour.

HMS Resolution ( Cook ) | Resolution and HMS Adventure ( 1771 ) | Adventure in Matavai Bay by William Hodges

A Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A320 family | Airbus A320 on stand, soon to operate a chartered service to a seaside destination.

File: STS-116 spacewalk 1. jpg | International Space Station assembly EVA made during the STS-116 mission, over Cook Strait islands

Table Mountain from James Cook | Capt.

File: Cook County Illinois 1831. png | Cook County from the time of its creation to 1836

File: Cook County Illinois 1836. png | Cook County 1836 – 39

File: Cook County Illinois 1839. png | Cook County was reduced to its current size in 1839 by the creation of DuPage County.

File: Hyde Park Captain Cook. JPG | Statue of Captain Cook, Sydney, Australia.