Pegasus Bay

Pegasus Bay, earlier known as Cook's Mistake, is a bay on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Pegasus Bay, with New Brighton the spit in the foreground

Location
Location of Pegasus Bay

The bay has a sandy beach and runs from Banks Peninsula to the Waipara River mouth. The city of Christchurch is at the southern end of the bay.

Other than dolphins including the endemic, endangered Hector's dolphins that regularly live or visit into the waters, whales such as southern right and humpback are known to migrate into the gulf.[1][2]

Rivers

Rivers flowing into Pegasus Bay, from north to south, are:

Naming
Spencer Beach, Spencerville

The Pegasus was the name of the sailing ship which surveyed part of the South Island in 1809. The brig Pegasus was the former Pegaso, captured at the Peruvian port of Trujillo on 28 July 1807 by the British frigate HMS Cornwallis, commanded by Captain Charles James Johnston, during a cruise against Spanish shipping and ports along the coasts of Spanish America.[3] Johnston dispatched Pegaso to Port Jackson, where she arrived at the end of October.[4] Submitted to the Court of Admiralty in Sydney, Pegaso, was condemned as a prize on 24 January 1808 and sold off, renamed Pegasus. A few months later she was acquired by Thomas Moore and in May of that year she was made ready to go on the sealing trade to the southern part of New Zealand. This expedition took place between August 1898 and March 1809, when Pegasus was commanded by Captain Eber Bunker.[5] Pegasus went on a second expedition under the command of Samuel Chase from Port Jackson to London by way of the sealing grounds in southern New Zealand from May 1809 to August 1810: William W. Stewart was first officer and made charts of the New Zealand coast, including Stewart Island, which was subsequently named after him.[6] William Stewart gave Pegasus Bay its name.[7] The captain of the ship, Captain Samuel Chase (not to be confused with his contemporary, Captain Samuel Rodman Chace),[8] lays claim to correcting James Cook's charts by determining that "Banks Island" was in fact a peninsula. As late as 1843, the bay was referred to as Cook's Mistake.[9]

The MV Pegasus Bay was also the final name of a container ship that operated with a variety of owners from 1978 to 2002.[10] It was made into a Triang model ship under another name, MV City of Durban.[11]

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References
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  2. Description of the Environment. Retrieved on 5 November 2014
  3. John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography, Supplement, Part I, London, 1827, p.168.
  4. John Harris to Anna Josépha King, 25 October 1807, Historical Records of New South Wales, Sydney, Vol.VI, 1898, p.348.
  5. John O'C. Ross, William Stewart, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator, Aranda (A.C.T), Roebuck Society, 1987, p.100.
  6. The Sydney Gazette, 15 May, 22 May, 29 May, 5 June 17 July, 24 July 21 August, 28 August 11 September, 18 September 1808, 19 March 12 March, 9 April 16 April, 7 May 1809. John Purdy, The Oriental Navigator, London, 1816, p.90; Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, Vol.2, Philadelphia, 1844, p.405; John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography, Supplement, Part I, London, 1827, p.168; Robert McNab, Murihiku and the Southern Islands, Invercargill, William South, 1907, pp.155–162; John O'C. Ross, William Stewart, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator, Aranda (A.C.T), Roebuck Society, 1987, pp.97–117; Anne-Marie Whitaker, "From Norfolk Island to Foveaux Strait: Joseph Foveaux’s Role in the Expansion of Whaling and Sealing in Early Nineteenth Century Australasia", The Great Circle, vol.26, no.1, 2004, pp.51–59.
  7. "Christchurch Chronology 1809 – Heritage". Christchurch City Libraries. 12 June 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  8. Entwisle, Peter (2005). Taka: a vignette life of William Tucker 1784–1817. Port Daniel Press. p. 49. ISBN 0-473-10098-3. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
  9. Hight, James; Straubel, C. R. (1957). A History of Canterbury : to 1854. I. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. p. 35.
  10. "ACT 8". Bluestarline.org. 19 October 2002. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  11. "P 623 MV City of Durban (Ellerman Lines)". Tri-ang Minic Ships. Retrieved 29 September 2015.

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