Nov 16, 2022 · Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMB Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales. In his journal, he wrote: ‘so far as we know [it] doth not produce any one thing that can become an Article in trade to invite Europeans to fix a settlement upon it’.

Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

The Australian nation will be torn between Anglo celebrations and Aboriginal mourning over James Cook’s so-called discovery of Australia. 2020 marks the two-hundred-and-fifty-year anniversary of James Cook’s epic voyage along the east coast of Australia in 1770.

Apr 19, 2020 · Did Cook claim he discovered Australia? Cook named the land he encountered New South Wales in an effort to counter any Dutch interest in what they had long called New Holland.

In 1768, when Captain James Cook set sail on the first of three voyages to the South Seas, he carried with him secret orders from the British Admiralty to seek ‘a Continent or Land of great extent’ and to take possession of that country ‘in the Name of the King of Great Britain’.

There is far more you can say about what James Cook did not do than about the things that he did as captain of the Endeavour. He did not discover Australia. He did not circumnavigate the continent. He did not establish any settlement. Indeed, he only made landfall a handful of times.

These secret instructions revealed that there was a second mission: to find the mysterious alleged southern continent ‘Terra Australis’, and claim it for Britain. Cook set sail southward. From...

Our James Cook collection showcases the Library’s most famous item - Cook’s HMS Endeavour journal. It covers Cook’s 3 voyages in the Pacific and Indian Oceans from 1768 to 1779. The collection includes firsthand records of his travels, such as logbooks, drawings, artefacts, and letters from Sir Joseph Banks and other crew members.

Jan 25, 2016 · James Cook's voyage in Endeavour, 1768-1771, was the first European expedition to include scientific discovery as a major objective. When the Library’s fair copy of his logbook was brought to our conservation lab for examination, its binding had completely failed, and the deteriorated iron gall ink had significantly cracked and broken the paper.

In 1770 Lieutenant James Cook, captain of the ship the HMB Endeavour, climbed to the highest point of Possession Island and claimed the east coast of the Australian continent for Britain, naming it New South Wales.