New Zealand High Sea

In the Tasman Sea west of the South Island, the Southern Alps rise beyond the exposed West Coast. Abel Tasman's expedition sighted these mountains on 13 December 1642 and sailed north along the coast. At the headland later called Cape Foulwind, his men sketched a rocky point. In 1770 James Cook's Endeavour encountered gales near the same cape, whose name commemorates the difficult weather.