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Two newly analyzed pieces of a shipwreck found off the coast of Rhode Island lend convincing evidence that the vessel is actually the remains of Captain Cook’s lost ship HMB Endeavour ...
A replica of Captain Cook's ship 'Endeavour' is seen at the Australian ... Marine Archaeology Project said it was too early to draw that conclusion. In a statement, project executive director ...
So, this is where Cook would be drawing his charts ... BTN finds out more about Captain James Cook and his famous voyage on board the Endeavour, during which he charted New Zealand at the Eastern ...
The Natural History Museum holds all of the surviving botanical artwork from Captain James Cook's first Pacific ... Explore original botanical drawings and engravings prepared by Sydney Parkinson ...
In the summer of 1768, an obscure sea captain called James Cook set sail from Plymouth on a ship called HMS Endeavour ... of meticulous paintings and drawings. Before the invention of photography ...
When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit ...
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 ...
In the early Sydney colony, newcomers commonly quizzed Indigenous locals about their memories of Captain Cook and the Endeavour ... Mobilising Objects to draw together objects in international ...
A ship like the Endeavour was its own floating world, its commander an absolute ruler. A Royal Navy captain was described ... of shooting Kahura, Cook had his draftsman draw a portrait of him.
In The Pacific in the Wake of Captain ... with Cook’s sea voyage by pointing out that “at least we were in touch with mission control”. The prolonged isolation of the Endeavour is ...