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16 February
16 February
1770
Cook sights Banks 'Island'
Lieutenant James Cook sighted Banks Peninsula from the
Endeavour
. The following day he decided it was an island, which he named for the expedition's botanist, Joseph Banks.
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1986
Sinking of the
Mikhail Lermontov
At 5.37 p.m. on 16 February 1986, the Soviet cruise liner
Mikhail Lermontov
hit rocks off Cape Jackson in the Marlborough Sounds.
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