First voyage of James Cook
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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. The aims were to observe the 1769 transit of V
Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768. By Thomas Luny, dated 1790
View of Endeavour's watering place in the Bay of Good Success, Tierra del Fuego, with natives. Alexander Buchan, January 1769.
Māori war canoe with triangle sail drawn by Herman Spöring during Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769
Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay), 1770
Second voyage of James Cook
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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 the globe as far south as possible to fina
First voyage of James Cook
…on 13 March 1771, and reached the English port of Deal on 12 July. The voyage lasted almost three years. The year following his return, Cook left on a second circumnavigation (1772 to 1775), again in search of Terra Australis. On 16 February 1768 the Royal Society petitioned King George III to finance a scientific expedition…
Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay
Cook in Antarctica drawn by William Hodges
Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, Georg, by John Francis Rigaud.