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The route of Cook's first voyage Later state of map originally published 1748. Revised to show the discoveries of Cook's first voyage (1768-1771) and discoveries in Bering Strait. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771.
The route of Cook's third voyage shown in red; blue shows the return route after his death. James Cook's third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) was a British attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific coast of North America.
Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
The second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, commissioned by the British government with advice from the Royal Society, [1] was designed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to finally determine whether there was any great southern landmass, or Terra Australis.
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European discovery of eastern Australia, Hawaii and undertook the first circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended consequences. In recent decades, Cook has been vilified by some scholars and cultural ...
Fort Venus located on the north coast of Tahiti. On 3 June 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. [1]
Voyages of Captain Cook, 1st voyage; The South Seas Project Maps and online editions of the Journals of James Cook's First Pacific Voyage, 1768–71. Includes full text of journals kept by Cook, Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson, as well as the complete text of John Hawkesworth's 1773 Account of Cook's first voyage.