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Gisborne, the first city in the world to see the sun each day, holds the most strategic position of both hemispheres as being the city furthest to the east. It is located on the sunny East Coast of the North Island.
The Maori name for the district is Tairawhiti which means "the first land to be touched by the sun". Kaiti Beach, near the city, was where the Maori immigrational waka, Horouta, landed; and is also the first European landing place in New Zealand.
England's famous explorer Captain James Cook of the H.M.S. Endeavour, made his first landfall at Kaiti Beach Gisborne on October 9, 1769 on his discovery of New Zealand. European settlement was established in 1831 and the town which developed was named after Hon. William Gisborne, the Colonial Secretary, in 1870.
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Described by Odyssey's End as "the Jewel of the South Pacific ... cradled on the east coast of New Zealand"
"Gisborne has a unique position in the world and that is absolutely recognised by all."
Mr Stefanou, TV3 - Millennium Day Broadcast
The Gisborne Herald, Saturday, January 30, 1999 |
Heaven meets Earth in district says PM
 A PLACE where Heaven and Earth meet - that’s Jenny Shipley’s verdict of Gisborne after her two-day visit here, her first as Prime Minister. |
The Gisborne Herald, Tuesday, April 20, 1999 |
"... Well, and another thing, every two thousand years something has happened on the earth, and politics and everything give out, God had to send help from heaven. And the first two thousand years, the world was destroyed with water; the second two thousand years Christ come ...
W. M. Branham - His unfailing Words of Promise 20/1/63
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