Capt Cook's Journal Aboard HMB Endeavour
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. Use the Search box on the right for dates & places.
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...
Lt James Cook aboard HMB Endeavour first sight of Australia
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...
Captain Cook’s ship Endeavour confirmed found in Newport Harbour, USA
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...
James Cook journal: 20th – 28th April, 1770 on HMB Endeavour
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...
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,...
An account of the life of Captain James Cook
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...
Secret Orders to Captain James Cook on H.M. Bark ENDEAVOUR
Here is the transcript of the Orders, classified Secret, given to Lt. James Cook of the HMB Endeavour, only to be opened on completion...
List of Persons who left England in H.M.B. Endeavour, 1768.
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,...
Capt. Cook’s Journal 1-18 Apr.1770 New Zealand – New Holland
Lt. James Cook journal: 1st - 18th April 1770. Passage from New Zealand to Australia aboard HMB Endeavour. Apart from 12 lashes given to...
