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    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...
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    The second voyage of James Cook, from 1772 to 1775, commissioned by the British government with advice from the Royal Society, was designed to circumnavigate...
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    James Cook's third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) took the route from Plymouth via Tenerife and Cape Town to New Zealand and the Hawaiian...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Account of Cook's first voyage. Digitised copies of log books from James Cook's voyages at the British Atmospheric Data Centre Works by James Cook at Project...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. During a transit, Venus appears as a small black disc travelling across the Sun. Transits of Venus occur...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    story of moko kauae detailing her tā moko journey; her artist was Christine Harvey. Europeans were aware of tā moko from the time of the first voyage of James...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Tahiti occurred during the first voyage of James Cook, after which Cook explored New Zealand and Australia. This was one of five expeditions organised...
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    "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...
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    Georg Forster's report on the second voyage of the British explorer James Cook. During the preparations for Cook's voyage, the expedition's naturalist Joseph...
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    Third Voyage of Columbus, 1498–1500". Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Noble, David Cook. "Nicolás de Ovando" in Encyclopedia of Latin...
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    flattened shape of the nests that they build. In 1768 HMS Endeavour left Plymouth on the first voyage of James Cook, reaching the harbour of Rio de Janeiro...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    participated 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. Endeavour...
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    Banks as botanical illustrator on the first voyage of James Cook. Parkinson died at sea in 1771 on the return voyage, and the Journal was compiled by William...
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