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Timeline of James Cook’s voyages. A timeline of Cook’s voyages provided by the British Library, showing key dates and events. Cook’s journal. Read transcripts of Cook’s journal as he travelled along the eastern cost of Australia. ‘I’m Captain Cooked’: Aboriginal perspectives on James Cook, 1770–2020
Há 1 dia · John Keyes Sherwin (engraver, 1751–1790), after Nathaniel Dance (1735–1811), Proof Plate of Portrait of Captain James Cook (detail), c. 1779, nla.cat-vn21022552 Who is Cook? | National Library of Australia
Plans for a colony. In the Australian public memory, James Cook is synonymous with discovery and is regarded as one of Australia’s founding fathers. But in reality, he was long deceased by the time decisions were made to establish a colony in Australia, and he had nothing to do with the First Fleet. It was influential people in British ...
From an Australian point of view, the first voyage in particular has great significance. Eighteen years after Cook mapped much of the east coast and claimed it for the British Crown, the First Fleet arrived and British colonisation of the continent began. Cook’s Pacific Encounters exhibition, National Museum of Australia, 2006.
The first voyage. James Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768-1771) was aboard the Endeavour and began on 27 May 1768. Cook’s 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), on 3 June 1769. The second aim was to record natural history, led ...
19 de abr. de 2020 · No. The idea that Cook discovered Australia has long been debunked, and was debated as recently as 2017 when Indigenous broadcaster Stan Grant pointed to an inscription on statue in Sydney's Hyde ...
A century-old Captain James Cook statue has been cut down and a Queen Victoria monument covered in red paint in an apparent protest in Australia. The late-night vandalism occurred in Melbourne on ...
