Captain Cook's Journal
In 1770, Lt. James Cook and the crew aboard H.M.B. Endeavour were the first British to make landfall on the east coast of what is now called Australia. Cook’s journal is illustrated by Mark Anning, photographer.
19th-Century Ship’s Figurehead of First Nations Woman
Figureheads from the 19th century sailing ships are a fascinating blend of maritime superstition, ship branding, and high-seas sculpture. On Australian-built ships, as with...
Final report on James Cook’s Endeavour from Rhode Island
HMB Endeavour Shipwreck Report The Locating HMB Endeavour Final Report, released this week, is a detailed culmination of physical evidence, historical cross-analysis, and comparative shipwreck...
Australian Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook repatriated
Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology have repatriated four Australian Aboriginal spears, which were taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany...
Aboriginal Warrior Pemulwuy and the Fight for Repatriation
Pemulwuy: Warrior, Resistance Leader, and the Fight for Repatriation Pemulwuy, an Aboriginal warrior from the Bidjigal people, is remembered as one of Australia’s first resistance...
Stuff the British Stole: Antiquities and Repatriation
Stuff the British Stole: Antiquities, Empire, and Repatriation Throughout the British Empire’s reign, artifacts, treasures, and cultural symbols were systematically taken from colonized nations. From...
Sail the Endeavour on the 2025 Voyages – Amazing Adventure!
Sail the Tallship HMB Endeavour: A Journey Through History Imagine the wind in your hair, the vast open sea stretching out in front of you,...
James Cook journal aboard HMB Endeavour: 14 – 20 May, 1770
During this week in 1770 the HMB Endeavour travelled north from Smoky Cape near South West Rocks in NSW to the northern tip of...
James Cook journal aboard HMB Endeavour: 7 – 14 May, 1770
After spending a week surveying Botany Bay (Kamay) and replenishing their supplies of fresh water and ray, Cook and the crew aboard H.M.Bark Eneavour...
First Contact: indigenous Australians & Cook on Endeavour
Even before Captain Cook and his men rowed ashore at Botany Bay Kamay in 1770, he shot an Australian indigenous man who was protesting...
James Cook journal: 29 April-6 May 1770 in Botany Bay-Kamay
On the 29th April, Cook set the anchor of H.M. Bark Endeavour in Kamay (the Dharawal nation name) which he gave an English name,...