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Here is the transcript of the Orders, classified Secret, given to Lt. James Cook of the HMB Endeavour, only to be opened on completion of his mission to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus...

A list of H.M.B Endeavour's officers, marines, crew and civilians, totalling 94 men and boys when the ship sailed from England on August 26, 1768. 38 men died on Cook's first voyage, including 26 people in...

Lt James Cook's journal entries Friday, 20-28th April 1770, sailing north from Point Hicks to Botany Bay (Kamay) during his First Voyage in H.M Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. The captain and crew aboard His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour...

CAPTAIN COOK'S life, or the account of so much of it as is recoverable, has been so often recounted that there is no occasion to insert more in this publication than is necessary as a...

In 1778, only seven years after Cook's historic First Voyage to the South Seas, the British Navy deliberately sank (scuttled) his ship, the HMB Endeavour by then renamed the Lord Sandwich, in Newport Harbor. There, at...

19th April 1770, Lt James Cook aboard His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, made landfall on the east coast of Australia. James Cook's diary records the first sighting of the east coast of Australia by the British. °°° THURSDAY,...

Curious about how ChatGPT can help you at work? Be careful what company information might be given away while experimenting, warns a UNSW Business School professor.   Is it safe to use ChatGPT at work? Be careful...

48 senators and members of Australia's federal parliament and 35 lords and MPs in the UK, from all sides of politics, have written open letters to the USA Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for him...

An image of a single positively-charged strontium atom, held near motionless by electric fields, has won the overall prize in a national science photography competition, organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). ‘Single...