Kupe & Captain James Cook Early new zealand exploers.

Kupe and Captain Cook were  2  inportant exploers in new zealand history.

Kupe’s voyage was triggered by the lack of sea life near his village .

kupe arrived in nz in the 1100s.He travelled by traditianal methods on a traditional sail boat.

Myth Kupe followed a giant octopus.He did this voage to find new land for his people.

I have understood that Kupe was the first man to arrived to NZ. This voyage was on accident and that one day an octopus was eating all of the fish near his village so his tribe was not able to eat. Kupe followed the octopus on a 'poti' and instead he found New Zealand. His wife named it Aotearoa which in Maori means ‘Land of the long white cloud’. This happened in the 1100’s.  

Kupe is important beacause he was the first documenteal person in nz.
captain cook is inportant because he mapped nz and opend it up to the world to access.