Cape Campbell, ''Te Karaka'' in the

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, is in Marlborough, New Zealand, on the northeastern coast of the

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. It lies at the southern end of Clifford Bay, northeast of

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, and southeast of

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. Cape Campbell lies close to the

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works at

Lake Grassmere Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau is a New Zealand waituna-type lagoon in the northeastern South Island, close to Cook Strait. The lake is used for the production of salt. Geography Lake Grassmere, south of Blenheim and south of the mouth of ...

. It is the third-easternmost point of the South Island, at a longitude of about 174^o16.5' East. (The two easternmost points are West head (it is the western shore of the opening to

Tory Channel Tory Channel / Kura Te Au is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. Inter-island ferries normally use it as the principal channel between Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. Tory Channel / Kura Te Au lies ...

- the opposing shore being on

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), and Cape Jackson (between the entrances to Queen Charlotte Sound and Port Gore), both at a longitude of 174^o19' east.) It was named by Captain James Cook after Captain (later Vice-Admiral) John Campbell, who had been a strong supporter of Cook's as Observer for the Royal Society.Beaglehole, John Cawte. The Life of Captain James Cook, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California (1974). The Cape Campbell Lighthouse has guided ships rounding the cape since 1870. The third night of the
Cape Campbell Track
is spent at Cape Campbell, where the lighthouse keepers once stayed. When walking the Cape Campbell Track, a four-day private walking track, walkers retrace part of the original packtrack used by the lighthouse keepers to obtain vital supplies from the Flaxbourne Station Homestead where the first telegraph office stood.

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Cape Campbell
at Land Information New Zealand. Headlands of the Marlborough Region Cook Strait {{Marlborough-geo-stub