Date:
c1990
Title:
Poster
Object ID:
2019.332.404
Object Name:
Poster
Extent of Description:
Single sheet of paper, 60 x 37cm
Scope & Content:
[Poster, rectangular cream paper with blue print.]
[Poster reads]
HINEPOUPOU LEGEND 1990
[Map showing Kapiti Island and Cook Strait]
KAPITI ISLAND — d'URVILLE ISLAND MARATHON SWIM 1990
DISTANCE 56 NAUTICAL MILES
Approximately 1750 A.D., Hinepoupou was abandoned on Kapiti Island by her husband. she waited until the weather and tides were right then swam across Cook Strait to d'Urville Island to seek her father's help. She followed the old canoe route from Kapiti to Cape Jackson outside Queen Charlotte Sound. In that vicinity she was caught by a tidal eddy and swept back into Cook Strait where she landed on the Brothers Rocks. From there she swam on a following tide to Cape Jackson and then via the Outer Marlborough Sounds to d'Urville Island. Her swim took three days. She rested on islets. Her father resolved her marital problems. Later she remarried and was very happy. She was a woman of great courage, faith, endurance.
Early European whalers in open boats would have followed the sme route to Queen Charlotte Sounds from Kapiti.
Mid—February (1990) a team of people, many of them from the Kapiti District, came together as One Powerful Force and successfully retraced Hinepoupou's marathon swim. In doing so they proved her swim through complex Cook Strait sea currents was fact. They also set a new swimming track with unique historic and scientific interest for marathon swimmers of the future.
[There is also a list of the team persons including the swimming team and swim trustees 1990]
[Reverse blank]
[Ruth Wright Collection]
[Poster reads]
HINEPOUPOU LEGEND 1990
[Map showing Kapiti Island and Cook Strait]
KAPITI ISLAND — d'URVILLE ISLAND MARATHON SWIM 1990
DISTANCE 56 NAUTICAL MILES
Approximately 1750 A.D., Hinepoupou was abandoned on Kapiti Island by her husband. she waited until the weather and tides were right then swam across Cook Strait to d'Urville Island to seek her father's help. She followed the old canoe route from Kapiti to Cape Jackson outside Queen Charlotte Sound. In that vicinity she was caught by a tidal eddy and swept back into Cook Strait where she landed on the Brothers Rocks. From there she swam on a following tide to Cape Jackson and then via the Outer Marlborough Sounds to d'Urville Island. Her swim took three days. She rested on islets. Her father resolved her marital problems. Later she remarried and was very happy. She was a woman of great courage, faith, endurance.
Early European whalers in open boats would have followed the sme route to Queen Charlotte Sounds from Kapiti.
Mid—February (1990) a team of people, many of them from the Kapiti District, came together as One Powerful Force and successfully retraced Hinepoupou's marathon swim. In doing so they proved her swim through complex Cook Strait sea currents was fact. They also set a new swimming track with unique historic and scientific interest for marathon swimmers of the future.
[There is also a list of the team persons including the swimming team and swim trustees 1990]
[Reverse blank]
[Ruth Wright Collection]
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Poster, Hinepoupou Legend 1990
Poster, Hinepoupou Legend 1990