Talk:Pegasus Bay

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Māori name?[edit]

I came here to find out its Māori name. What is it? It's a bit annoying to find that missing but the über-trivia about a model ship with a different name there --Hugh7 (talk) 21:59, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to the New Zealand Gazetteer of New Zealand place names, Pegasus Bay is not an official name, meaning it has not been through a formal naming process run by the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). However NZGB has publications of Māori place names. While these publications do not give an equivalent name for Pegasus Bay, part of the shoreline between the Ashley River and Avon/Heathcote Estuary is named Kairaki (which is an ancient name of unknown meaning for the Pacific). Also a fishing ground to the east of Pegasus Bay is known as Komaka a Te KaiKai a Waro meaning the foodstore belonging to KaiKai a Waro. As what name you choose may depend on how you intend to apply it, I don't think simply looking for an equivalent Māori name is going to help you. You may want to contact the NZGB, or find someone experienced in Tangata whenuatanga for advice. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Headings[edit]

The headings of this article bear little relation to their content. The Location section wanders from South to North in the first sentence, then North to South in the next sentence, while the Rivers are listed North to South. This is inconsistent. There is a reference to Dolphins in the Location section, which doesn't seem relevant here and probably needs to go in a separate section called Fauna. There no separate top level section called Geography which to insert Location and Rivers into as sub-sections. The Naming section reads like a History section rather than a Toponomy section. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 07:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cook's Mistake[edit]

There is no explanation in the article about what Cook saw, what he named the bay on his map or why he might have made such a mistake (if it was a mistake, rather than a strategic mis-mapping - perhaps that is speculation?) when he was 8 Leagues (24 NMi) off-shore. Cook's journal gives no explanation for why he named the bay between Banks Island and the main island as Gore's Bay, which has been put down to flattery of Gore. However, Lieutenant Gore was Officer of the Watch at daybreak, when this high Island was sighted. Did Gore first see this gap between the island and range of mountains as a Bay and draw Cook's attention to it, too? Gore also saw what he imagined was land to the South-East at about the same time. While Cook believed this only to be clouds, he did sail South-East, away from land to explore this possible sighting of more land to the South-East after passing Banks Island, if only to prove Gore wrong. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 07:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Typo[edit]

Under section titled Discovery there is a typo in the sentence “This expedition took place between August 1898 and March 1809 . . .” Obviously this should read “between August 1808 and March 1809 . .”