British naval officer and explorer James Cook made his first landing in Australia when he stepped ashore at Botany Bay in present day NSW on April 29, 1770. He claimed the east coast of the ...

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The local Aboriginal people refer to Botany Bay as Gamay, and the first interaction between Europeans and Aboriginal people here was not positive. In April 1770, Captain Cook led a landing party ...

The 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's contentious landing in Australia ... by AFP Follow On April 29, 1770, Captain Cook sailed the Endeavour into Botany Bay -- called Kamay in the local ...

Captain Cook’s landing on the shores at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770 was resisted by Gweagal men – the indigenous Australian people of the area. Soon afterwards, the British crew took 40 ...

Captain Cook’s landing on the shores at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770 was resisted by Gweagal men – the indigenous Australian people of the area. Soon afterwards, the British crew took 40 spears ...

Captain Cook’s landing on the shores at Kamay (Botany Bay) in 1770 was resisted by Gweagal men – the indigenous Australian people of the area. Soon afterwards, the British crew took 40 spears from a ...

Four spears taken from an Aboriginal community by James Cook and Joseph Banks during ... where Australia's history began, in 1770 on the shores of Botany Bay at Kurnell, the spears that were ...

James Cook and his crew found the spears in ... it's a momentous occasion that where Australia's history began, in 1770 on the shores of Botany Bay at Kurnell, the spears that were undoubtedly ...

LONDON (AP) — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook ... 1770, at the time of the first contact between Cook’s crew and the Indigenous people of Kamay, or ...

LONDON (AP) — Four Aboriginal spears that were taken to England by Captain James Cook more than 250 years ago were returned Tuesday to Australia's Indigenous community at a ceremony in Cambridge ...