Mount Cook: Verskil tussen weergawes

| Koördinate = {{Koördinate|43|35|42|S|170|088|30|O|type:mountain|aansig=inlyn,titel}}

| Eerste bestyging persoon = Tom Fyfe,<br />George Graham,<br />Jack Clarke

Mount Cook is op [[13 Desember]] [[1642]] deur die [[Nederland]]se ontdekkingsreisiger [[Abel Tasman]] ontdek.<ref name="Te_Ara1">{{en}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/european-discovery-of-new-zealand/page-2 |title=European discovery of New Zealand -– Abel Tasman -– Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand |accessdate=29 April 2015 |author=John Wilson |date=21 Desember 2006

|publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga }}</ref> In 1851 het die Britse offisier [[John Lort Stokes]] die berg ná die Britse ontdekkingsreisiger [[James Cook]] genoem, wie die eilande van Nieu-Seeland vir die eerste keer omseil het.<ref name="Cook_journal">{{en}} {{cite web |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8106 |title=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World |accessdate=29 April 2015 |author=James Cook |date=1728–1779 |publisher= |pages=Sondag, 18 Maart 1770 | archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20070416114512/http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106| archivedate= 16 April 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> In 1998 is die amptelike naam ná '''Aoraki / Mount Cook''' verander, om die historiese Māori-naam, Aoraki, te inkorporeer.<ref name="Ngai_Tahu">{{en}} {{cite web |url= http://www.beehive.govt.nz/feature/ngai-tahu-settlement-260 |title= Ngai Tahu Settlement Section 3: Aoraki/Mount Cook |first= Doug |last= Graham |publisher= New Zealand Government |date= 13 Oktober 1998 |accessdate=29 April 2015}}</ref>