Charles Green (astronomer)
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Charles Green was a British astronomer, noted for his assignment by the Royal Society in 1768 to the expedition sent to the Pacific Ocean in order to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Cook's E
Sketchings of the 1769 Venus Transit by Captain James Cook and Charles Green, showing the black drop effect.
Point Venus
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Point Venus is a peninsula on the north coast of Tahiti, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia. It is in the commune of Mahina, approximately 8 km east of the capital, Pape'ete.
Point Venus is marked in this annotated Landsat image
Point Venus Lighthouse, Tahiti (LMS, 1869, p.)
The lighthouse in 2017