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Title - "Cooks Beach - Coromandel"
Medium - Oil on Board
Size - width 820 x height 690mm
Framed
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Origin
Every beach on the Coromandel Peninsula
has a special character of it's own, due perhaps to it's historical
significance, combined with the weather of the day. Each has
an untouched atmosphere, stark,remote and sometimes forbidding. The
explorer Captain James Cook, landed at Cook's Beach in his ship "Endeavor" in
1769, to watch the planet Mercury cross the sun. He planted
the English flag on the beach and declared New Zealand for King George
3rd of England.
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