Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in ... sailing alongside Captain Charles Clerke on the HMS Discovery. Cook was accompanied by the naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and ...

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti ... The success and scale of discovery recorded by Banks's group set a precedent for ...

A medal marking Captain James Cook's second voyage of discovery in 1772 has sold for ... The medal has the two ships commissioned for the voyage - HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure - and the ...

I first encountered Tupaia while researching Captain Samuel Wallis and the European discovery of Tahiti, and the subsequent voyages of James Cook and William Bligh ... as to describe Tupaia as a ...

In 1778 the explorer Captain James Cook was in the Pacific ... The surgeon who sailed with Cook on 'HMS Discovery' mused upon the problems of communication with this other strange world, as ...

The new coin features the HMS Resolution, the ship that was captained by James Cook. The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of the reign of George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king. During his ...

James Cook in Canada ... and the Sandwich Islands. Captain Cook, Public Arcives of Canada Towards the end of his journeys, just after his discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, he headed towards ...

Old man banksia (Banksia serrata), collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Captain Cook's voyage of discovery to Australasia ... specimens made on voyages such as those of James Cook, HMS ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery which would push the borders of the British Empire to the ends of the earth.