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.
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...
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,...
Australian Aboriginal spears taken by James Cook repatriated
Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will repatriate four Australian Aboriginal spears, which were taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany...
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...
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,...
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 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...
James Cook journal aboard HMB Endeavour: 14 – 20 May,...
During this week in 1770 the HMB Endeavour travelled north from Smoky Cape near South West Rocks in NSW to the northern tip of...
