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Gisborne, city (“district”) and port on Poverty Bay, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. The city is located where the Waimata and Taruheru rivers join to form the Turanganui. It was the first area in New Zealand visited (1769) by Captain James Cook. It received its first permanent European settlers in 1852 and was surveyed in 1870 and given the name Gisborne for then colonial secretary Sir William Gisborne. It was given the status of a borough in 1877, and it was constituted a city in 1955. Linked to Wellington by road and rail and to Auckland by road, ...(100 of 177 words)

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