provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it the name Poverty Bay. Cook's first choice of name for the inlet, before the conflict, had been Endeavour Bay, as a memorial of the ship's first landing place in New Zealand.

Bay whaling stations operated in the bay during the 19th century.

In 1866, Te Kooti, a Maori rebel leader, and Hauhau followers were incarcerated without trial in the Chatham Islands.

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