In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook ... A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's Ship the Endeavour [1768-1871] … by Sydney Parkinson (1773) Source: The ...

Annotated watercolour painting by Georg Forster, made during James Cook’s second voyage to explore the southern seas, 1772-75 ... The HMS Endeavour voyage (1768–1771) was the first devoted to ...

In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the ... conceived an insanely ambitious sea voyage. Using a handful of basic tools to modify ...

Some 245 years and a month ago, James Cook, after 3 years at sea, took possession of ... Whilst James Cook may have been the first tourist to land on South Georgia all those years ago, in the ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold for £6,500 at auction. Captain Cook was sent as far south as possible ... Cook had been the first to reach ...