Cook's statue in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW
Lieutenant James Cook's first world voyage
Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-1771) as commander of the HMB Endeavour began on his departure from Deptford on Thames on 30 July 1768. Cook stopped at Plymouth on 13 August for five days to pick up Joseph Banks and his party, and to arrange accommodations for the botanist, Dr. Solander. On leaving England there were a total of 94 on board , another seaman being impressed at their stopover, Madeira.
This voyage had three aims: To establish an observatory at Tahiti in order to record the transit of Venus (when the planet passed between the earth and the sun), due on 3 June 1769; the second aim was to record natural history, led by 25-year-old Joseph Banks; the final secret goal was to continue the search for the elusive Great South Land.
Source: https://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/endeavour
For more details click on CAPTAIN JAMES COOK 2020, place the cursor and click on whichever report you wish to view on the sub-menu pages:
- Planning for the voyage
- The voyage begins
- First sighting of the east coast of Australia
- At Botany Bay
- The voyage north along the East Coast
- Excerpts from Cook's Journal
- New memorial at Cook's landing site
Source: Image from the internet.
© Arthur Phillip Chapter of the Fellowship of First Fleeters 2022 -
Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-1771) as commander of the HMB Endeavour began on his departure from Deptford on Thames on 30 July 1768. Cook stopped at Plymouth on 13 August for five days to pick up Joseph Banks and his party, and to arrange accommodations for the botanist, Dr. Solander. On leaving England there were a total of 94 on board , another seaman being impressed at their stopover, Madeira.
This voyage had three aims: To establish an observatory at Tahiti in order to record the transit of Venus (when the planet passed between the earth and the sun), due on 3 June 1769; the second aim was to record natural history, led by 25-year-old Joseph Banks; the final secret goal was to continue the search for the elusive Great South Land.
Source: https://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/endeavour
For more details click on CAPTAIN JAMES COOK 2020, place the cursor and click on whichever report you wish to view on the sub-menu pages:
- Planning for the voyage
- The voyage begins
- First sighting of the east coast of Australia
- At Botany Bay
- The voyage north along the East Coast
- Excerpts from Cook's Journal
- New memorial at Cook's landing site
Source: Image from the internet.
© Arthur Phillip Chapter of the Fellowship of First Fleeters 2022 -
