Complex sentence: Some of the first Polynesian navigators to New Zealand landed at Matauri Bay, and also early contact with Europeans took place, for instance with the missionary Samuel Marsden in 1814.
Split into simpler sentences: Some of the first Polynesian navigators to New Zealand landed at Matauri Bay. It was a site of early Maori contact with Europeans, such as with the missionary Samuel Marsden in 1814.