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In 1768 a refitted coal ship known as HM Bark Endeavour left Plymouth ... Well over a century later, on 29 April 1770, James Cook and the crew of HM Bark Endeavour landed in Botany Bay, home of 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.
But he ultimately joined James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour ... would have had over 1,100,000 deaths in a town of 2,500 houses at most. When Endeavour anchored there in October 1770, the ship's two-month ...
Captain James Cook and his journeys ... “[Captain Cook] moved to Whitby and he was apprentice to Captain John Walker who ran ...
The new coin features the HMS Resolution, the ship that was captained by James Cook. The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of the reign of George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king. During his ...
Stowed away in the margins of Captain Cook's and Joseph Banks's diaries, the enigmatic Polynesian has no known portrait, but may have been one of the most influential figures aboard HMS Endeavour.