As HMS Endeavour was preparing to leave Tahiti in July 1769, after a tropical sojourn of four months, a celebrated Polynesian priest and navigator named Tupaia announced that he wished to join the British in their travels.
James Cook, commander of the expedition, demurred at first. But with a nudge from the expedition’s naturalist Joseph Banks, he relented, allowing that Tupaia “was the likeliest person to answer our purpose.”To Read the Full Story
With stunning moonlit nights and spectacular sunsets, the Whitsunday Islands are incredible beautiful, great places for sailing, swimming, snorkeling and skydiving adventures.
Discovered by Captain James Cook, The Whitsundays are the home of the Ngaro Aboriginal people, known as the 'Canoe People'. The Ngaro were skilled navigators who inhabited the Whitsundays for at least the past 9000 years, archeological findings reveal.
the 74 idyllic, pristine, mostly uninhabited Whitsunday Islands are 'Island Wonders', with brilliant white silica sand and water creating a beautiful fusion of colors.
On the Australian east coast, northeast of Mackay, in the dazzling sapphire and turquoise blue waters, remnants of a coastal range, which was submerged when sea levels rose at the end of the Ice Age, right in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea,
He sailed along the coast of today Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska and continued through the 'Bering Strait'.
In July of 1776 James Cook set out on his third voyage. He rounded the southern tip of Africa and headed east across the Indian Ocean, he passed between the North and South islands of New Zealand through what would become 'Cook Strait' and towards the coast of North America.
* By circumnavigating the southern waters around Antarctica, James Cook determined that there was no habitable southern continent. And so discarded 'The Terra Incognita' myth.
The Royal Navy wanted to determine if there was a Northwest Passage which would allow sailing between Europe and Asia across the top of North America.
Captain James Cook continued south from Africa and turned around after encountering large amounts of floating pack ice – he came within 75 miles away of Antarctica. He then sailed to New Zealand for the winter and in summer proceeded south again past the Antarctic Circle.
In July 1772, the Royal Navy ships, 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' set sail and headed to Cape Town just in time for the summer.
His next mission was to find 'Terra Australis Incognita', the unknown mythical southern land.
From there he continued to the East Indies, the nowadays Indonesia and across the Indian Ocean to the 'Cape of Good Hope' at the southern tip of Africa.
His first stop was Rio de Janeiro, then the 'Endeavor' continued west to Tahiti where James Cook measured the transit of Venus. In the last part of the voyage, he charted New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, called 'New Holland' at that time.
In August, 1768, James Cook set sail from England on the Royal Navy 'Endeavor' ship.
And to make measurements of this event, in order to determine the accurate distance between the Earth and Sun.
James Cook skills at navigation and his interest in astronomy made him the best candidate to lead an expedition planned by the Royal Society and the British Royal Navy to Tahiti to explore the passage of Venus across the face of the Sun.
In 1755 he volunteered for the British Royal Navy and went to survey the St. Lawrence River.
At the age of 18, he apprenticed on coal carrying boats and while working in the North Sea, he spent most of his free time on learning math and navigation.
The Explorer James Cook was passionate of sea, ships and navigation and loved stories about great voyages of discoveries.
and the southwest coast of Australia, Sir John Franklin, officer in the Royal Navy and famous Arctic Explorer and Captain James Cook, famous Scottish Explorer and navigator, who discovered the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
most notably the Battle of Trafalgar, the famous navigator and explorer George Vancouver, who explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of today Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, the Hawaiian Islands
Among the people who made the British Royal Navy famous are the British naval officer Charles Hardy, governor and commander-in-chief of the British colony of province Newfoundland in Canada, the British admiral Horatio Nelson, famous for the sea battles of the Napoleonic Wars,
The Royal Navy played a key role in establishing the British Empire as the world superpower during the 19-th and first part of the 20-th centuries and was the place where some of the greatest inventors and innovators made their long, hard and amazing journey of discovery.
Along the years, the British Royal Navy was at the forefront of discovery and innovation, and many of its people made breakthrough leaps that really changed the world.
and Jacques Cartier, and the 'H.M.S Beagle' expedition with Charles Darwin onboard, history books are filled with amazing adventures of exploration and discoveries of new lands, and a few of them even have changed the route of history.
From Christopher Columbus journey to the New World to the first surrounding of the Earth by Ferdinand Magellan's ship 'Victoria', from the famous routes crossing the world's oceans, marking the expedition voyages of Vasco da Gama, Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook
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