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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 an-
chorage 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 Channel, which brought about the first permanent European settlement in
the district.