James Cook was born in 1728 in Yorkshire ... and began coastal surveys of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. In 1768 Cook was promoted to become commander of Endeavour Bark sent to Tahiti to observe the ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.

The Endeavour is currently moored in Whitby harbour where it has been since 2018, nearby where Captain Cook was born and ...

I have made no great discoveries, yet I have explored more of the Great South Sea than all who have gone before me, and little remains now to be done' James Cook in a letter to a friend, 1771. The ...

"Contains the journal of the voyage with Captain James Cook in the Endeavour ... Sir Joseph Banks during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-71. Appendices (v. 2, p. 276-355): 1.

James Cook and Kamehameha I’s quest to conquer the ... Ka‘ahumanu was born March 17, 1768, reportedly in an oceanside cave at Pu‘u Ka‘uiki adjacent to Hana Bay. Events are planned this ...

mfm PRO 3268 Letters of Capt. James Cook to the Admiralty, 1768–79 (Adm. 1/1609-12) mfm PRO 1550–51 Captain’s log books, HMS Adventure, 1772–74 (Adm. 51/4521-24) mfm PRO 1554 Captain’s log books, HMS ...

James Cook was a naval captain ... he commanded a captured ship for the Royal Navy. Then, in 1768, he took command of the ...

Does this float your boat? Replica of Captain Cook's Endeavour for sale for £2 million - The boat is one of two existing ...

Few people ever do. “This is but a bad place for Shipping,” Captain James Cook wrote in his journal in 1768, cautioning future visitors to keep clear of the seaweed. But the bay does provide ...

Read on to discover history's most iconic ships, from Darwin's HMS Beagle to the legendary Titanic and more... Dating from ...

However, this soup does nothing to combat the causes of scurvy. During Captain James Cook’s circumnavigation of the world (1768–1771), not a single life was lost to scurvy. Cook claimed that this was ...