a peninsula on the northern tip of Tahiti marked by a white six-storey lighthouse. Point Venus got its name from James Cook, who set up camp here to watch the 1769 transit of Venus between the sun ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in ... distributed to people in more than 30 locations including Tahiti, Easter Island and New Zealand. Gareth Wasp, of RWB Auctions ...

a peninsula on the northern tip of Tahiti marked by a white six-storey lighthouse. Traditions and old techniques Point Venus got its name from James Cook, who set up camp here to watch the 1769 ...

Liverpool’s ethnographic collections hold a small number of objects relating to the voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-1779 ... including the important breast ornament from Tahiti, pictured above, ...

Captain James Cook sets off from Plymouth, England on the first of three Pacific Ocean exploration voyages. He initially believed that the sole purpose of the trip was to travel to Tahiti to observe ...