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16 February
16 February
1770
James Cook sights Banks 'Island'
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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This Week in History
1 March
1862
Charles Thatcher gives first NZ performance
2 March
1865
Missionary Carl Völkner killed at Ōpōtiki
3 March
1960
Barry Crump publishes
A good keen man
4 March
1855
Legendary sheep rustler James Mackenzie caught
5 March
2013
Census held after two-year delay
6 March
1830
Outbreak of the 'Girls' War' at Kororāreka
7 March
1842
New Zealand's first official execution