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Gisborne , city (1996 pop. 32,608), East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a resort and a port, exporting wool, frozen meat, timber, and fish. Captain Cook made his first New Zealand landing there in 1769.

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Gisborne, North Island/New Zealand A unitary authority and city surveyed in 1870 by, and named after, Sir William Gisborne, the British colonial secretary at the time.

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