Yes he did, he met them.
Captain Cook was a captain and his full name was James Cook.
South Cape. Cook believed that it was a peninsular and part of the South Island. It was named Stewart Island after a sealer, Capt William Stewart, who charted it in 1809. Its Maori name is Rakiura.
james cook
Captain James Cook's father's name was also James Cook, and the elder James Cook was married to Grace Pace.
The Maori name for Mt Cook is Aoraki.
Yes he did, he met them.
The Maori name for Mount Cook is Aoraki.
Captain Cook's last name was Cook. His full name (after promotion) was Captain James Cook.
Aoraki..... often printed on modern maps as Aoraki/Mt Cook
The Cook Islands are renamed from the original Rao To Nga discovered and inhabited by Maori people
. . .Poaka is the Maori transliteration of the English 'porker'.Kapene kuki is a pig descended from those first released by Captain Cook and another type of pig found in New Zealand is called a kunekune.. . .Puaka is Maori Cook Islands for pig. Also Niue, Tonga. Derives from Maohi Tahiti, pua'a?more at google:. . .
Until the arrival of Europeans, Maori had not needed or used a collective name for themselves. By the 1830's they had come to use the word 'Maori' which meant 'normal' or 'natural' people.
Captain Cook was a captain and his full name was James Cook.
He was called Captain Cook because his last name was actually Cook.
South Cape. Cook believed that it was a peninsular and part of the South Island. It was named Stewart Island after a sealer, Capt William Stewart, who charted it in 1809. Its Maori name is Rakiura.
maori called it taranaki and captain cook named it mt egmont