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2 Waterways Boating Safaris A4

Sleeping

3 Bay of Many Coves Campsite C3

4 Bay of Many Coves Resort C3

5 Black Rock Campsite C3

Camp Bay Campsite (see 15)

6 Cnoc Na Lear C3

7 Davies Bay Campsite B4

8 Furneaux Lodge C2

9 Hopewell B3

10 Lochmara Lodge B3

Mahana Lodge (see 15)

11 Mistletoe Bay B3

Noeline's Homestay (see 15)

12 Nydia Bay DOC Campsite A3

13 Nydia Lodge A3

14 On the Track Lodge A3

15 Punga Cove Resort C3

16 Schoolhouse Bay Campsite D2

17 Smiths Farm Holiday Park A4

18 Whatamonga Homestay C4

History
Long before Abel Tasman sheltered on the east coast of D'Urville Island in 1642 (more
than 100 years before James Cook blew through in 1770), Maori knew the Marlborough
area as Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Maui (the prow of Maui's canoe). It was Cook who named
Queen Charlotte Sound; his reports made the area the best-known sheltered anchorage in
the southern hemisphere. In 1827 French navigator Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered the
narrow strait now known as French Pass. His officers named the island just to the north in
his honour. In the same year a whaling station was established at Te Awaiti in Tory Chan-
nel, which brought about the first permanent European settlement in the district.

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