HMS Endeavour - Wikipedia
WEBHMS Endeavour[ b ] was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.
First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia
WEBThe first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander.
6 Facts About Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour - History Hit
WEBJan 25, 2022 · After heading west from England, rounding Cape Horn beneath South America and crossing the Pacific, Cook landed the Endeavour in Australia’s Botany Bay on 29 April 1770. To the British, Cook went down in history as the man who ‘discovered’ Australia – despite Aboriginal Australians having lived there for …
Cook's First Voyage - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …
WEBJames Cook’s first voyage circumnavigated the globe in the ship Endeavour, giving the botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander the opportunity to collect plants from previously unexplored habitats.
The Endeavour voyage | State Library of New South Wales
WEBIt was Britain’s greatest voyage of ocean exploration, mounted by the Admiralty and the Royal Society and forty-year-old Captain James Cook was entrusted with its leadership. On 25 August 1768, three months after taking command of the HM Bark Endeavour , he led the ship out of Plymouth Harbour.
James Cook's Endeavour Journal - National Library of Australia
WEBLieutenant James Cook’s 753-page account of the voyage of His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour (also known as HMS Endeavour) from 1768 to 1771 is the story of one of history’s greatest journeys of discovery. By the end of the epic voyage, Cook had charted the coastlines of New Zealand and eastern Australia. …
Endeavour - Captain Cook Society
WEBEndeavour. In March 1768 the British Admiralty had decided to purchase the East-coast collier and Whitby-built bark the Earl of Pembroke for the expedition sponsored by the Royal Society of London to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. She was 3½ years old, built by Fishburn of Whitby and owned by Thomas Milner.
Captain Cook’s 1768 Voyage to the South Pacific Included a …
WEBAug 24, 2018 · Captaining the Endeavour, Cook departed from Plymouth 250 years ago on August 26, 1768, in order to arrive in Tahiti on time for the transit, which would happen on June 3, 1769. His path...
The History of HMB Endeavour's 1770 Voyage - Endeavour 250th ... - YouTube
WEBWe find out more about Captain James Cook and his famous voyage aboard the Endeavour, during which he charted New Zealand at the Eastern coast of Australia.B...
Cook's journal - National Museum of Australia
WEBCook's journal. James Cook kept a daily journal throughout the Endeavour 's voyage. It provides an on-the-spot account of what he saw and what he was thinking. See the pages of Cook's journal and read full transcripts for each entry as Endeavour travelled up the east coast from April to August 1770. Description of New Holland.