Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.
In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...
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A gripping account of Captain Cook’s final voyageSides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final ... his second Pacific voyage, Mai requested passage, becoming the first Polynesian to ...
Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost ... hitting public display for the first time in more than 100 years. Among the collection, there’s a thorny oyster, a sunburst ...
The voyages of Captain James Cook delivered new and exciting scientific and geographical discoveries to the western world. "Natural Curiosities", such as rocks, plants and animals were obviously ...
South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James ... first issue commemorates Possession itself and the start of South Georgia’s 250-year journey from obscurity to the modern age. Cook and ...
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