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... 62 KB (7,906 words) - 03:58, 29 April 2024 |
Kathmandu as the first King of Unified Kingdom of Nepal March 26 – First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard... 17 KB (1,911 words) - 12:33, 29 April 2024 |
The first voyage of James Cook was a discovery expedition to the south Pacific Ocean, with aims of observing the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun and... 9 KB (294 words) - 12:13, 26 April 2024 |
1893. James Cook led three separate voyages to chart areas of the globe unknown to the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was on his third and final voyage that... 20 KB (2,141 words) - 18:10, 9 April 2024 |
Point Hicks (category Headlands of Victoria (state)) land presumed to be the east coast of New Holland. After charting New Zealand during his first voyage of discovery, Cook set a course westwards, intending... 15 KB (1,326 words) - 04:12, 27 May 2023 |
Matavai Bay (category Bodies of water of Tahiti) establish a mission at Point Venus. First voyage of James Cook 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti Tautira Bay, which Cook visited on his second and third... 12 KB (1,369 words) - 03:51, 25 August 2023 |
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... 3 KB (399 words) - 14:25, 6 December 2023 |
illustrator on the first voyage of James Cook. It depicts the animal sitting on a rock and looking over its shoulder with a backdrop of trees and mountains... 5 KB (451 words) - 20:04, 7 April 2024 |
Independence of New Zealand First voyage of James Cook New Zealand Wars Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica List of years in New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi... 15 KB (1,117 words) - 10:43, 7 April 2024 |
Alexander Buchan (artist) (category James Cook) participation in the 1768–1771 first voyage of James Cook aboard HMS Endeavour, where he was one of the artists in the entourage of botanist Joseph Banks. Buchan... 18 KB (1,870 words) - 11:35, 7 April 2024 |
Melaleuca citrina (category Flora of New South Wales) root collected in 1770 at Botany Bay by Joseph Banks during the first voyage of James Cook to Australia. Curtis noted that the leaves "when bruised give... 11 KB (1,178 words) - 11:46, 4 April 2024 |
Tahitian Dog (redirect from Dogs of Tahiti) offerings of hogs and cloth but untied the dogs and turned them loose, an act that confused the Tahitians. On his first voyage, Captain James Cook and his... 24 KB (2,962 words) - 20:31, 21 September 2023 |
Frankland Group National Park (category National parks of Far North Queensland) First voyage of James Cook, Cook named the island group after Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet (1718 – 1784). A large number of birds are supported... 3 KB (188 words) - 09:33, 20 September 2023 |
Malay race (redirect from Definition of Malay people in Indonesia) "brown race," after studies done by Joseph Banks who was part of the first voyage of James Cook. Blumenbach used the term "Malay" due to his belief that most... 27 KB (2,744 words) - 19:51, 19 October 2023 |
Tahiti occurred during the first voyage of James Cook, after which Cook explored New Zealand and Australia. This was one of five expeditions organised... 39 KB (4,152 words) - 15:52, 13 April 2024 |
Terra Australis (redirect from Provinces of Beach) 40". The results of this first voyage of James Cook in respect of the quest for the Southern Continent were summed up by Cook himself. He wrote in his... 46 KB (5,848 words) - 03:05, 27 April 2024 |
scientific voyage, on 5 March 2007, the James Cook set off to study the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone. James Cook was involved in the discovery of what is... 8 KB (467 words) - 17:49, 4 November 2023 |
A poupou is a wall panel located underneath the veranda of a Māori wharenui (meeting house). It is generally built to represent the spiritual connection... 4 KB (475 words) - 01:50, 28 April 2023 |
the dual aims of observing the 1769 transit of Venus from Tahiti and searching for a southern continent, the first voyage of James Cook set out in August... 24 KB (2,669 words) - 09:12, 13 July 2023 |
This is a list of New Zealand places named by James Cook. Cook was the first European navigator to circumnavigate and chart the archipelago. He chose... 35 KB (721 words) - 15:02, 14 January 2024 |
Death of Cook is the name of several paintings depicting the 1779 death of the first European visitor to the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook at Kealakekua... 5 KB (477 words) - 01:39, 13 June 2023 |
Surfing (redirect from Index of surfing articles) was part of the first voyage of James Cook on HMS Endeavour, arriving on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant James King was the first person to write... 85 KB (10,635 words) - 13:59, 14 April 2024 |