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Cape Foulwind

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Cape Foulwind is a prominent headland on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, overlooking the Tasman Sea. [1]

18 relations: Abel Tasman, Buller River, Cape Foulwind Railway, Dolphin, Fur seal, Headlands and bays, Hector's dolphin, HMS Endeavour, James Cook, Killer whale, New Zealand, Promontory, South Island, Southern right whale, Tasman Sea, West Coast, New Zealand, Westport, New Zealand, Whale.

Abel Tasman

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 – 10 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

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Buller River

The Buller River is in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Cape Foulwind Railway

The Cape Foulwind Railway was a branch railway line west of Westport to Cape Foulwind.

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Dolphin

Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.

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Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

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Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related coastal features.

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Hector's dolphin

Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) is the best-known of the four dolphins in the genus Cephalorhynchus and, along with its subspecies Maui's dolphin, is the only cetacean endemic to New Zealand.

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HMS Endeavour

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Killer whale

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Promontory

A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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Southern right whale

The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena.

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Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

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West Coast, New Zealand

The West Coast (Te Tai Poutini) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island, it is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country.

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Westport, New Zealand

Westport (Kawatiri) is a town in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Foulwind

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