Complex sentence: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman anchored in this bay in 1642, and, following a bloody encounter with the local Māori when a party from his ships tried to go ashore, named it "Murderers Bay".
Split into simpler sentences: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman anchored in this bay in 1642. However, the resulting hostile encounter with the local Māori when a party from his ships tried to land caused him to bestow upon it the name "Murderers Bay".