Vessel buried off North Island coast sank more than 50 years before James Cook's discovery expedition.
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Change history
08 January 2014
An earlier version of this article stated that Captain Cook made his claim concerning the Maori's contact with Europeans decades after his 1769 discovery of New Zealand, but in fact he did so as early as 1777.
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Callaway, E. Shipwreck points to 18th-century race to colonize New Zealand. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14464
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