In 1770 this British sea captain nearly wrecked the Endeavour on the Great Barrier Reef
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Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour has been found in the United ...  May 1, 2016 ... Captain Cook's Endeavour is finally found 230 years after it ... The HMS Endeavour (replica pictured) was a British research ... The wreck of the Endeavour was found in Newport Harbor in Rhode ... Endeavour beached at Endeavour River for repairs after her grounding on the Great Barrier Reef in 1770.
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HMS Endeavour - Wikipedia  HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research ... In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of ... the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her. ... English port of Dover on 12 July, having been at sea for nearly three years.
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Captain Cook's Endeavour: from the Great Barrier Reef to Rhode ...  May 4, 2016 ... Captain Cook's Endeavour: from the Great Barrier Reef to Rhode ... its life sold, renamed and scuttled in the war to keep America British ... Now marine archaeologists are almost certain they have found its wreck at the bottom of the sea .... of Australia in 1770, but the first European ship to visit Australia was...
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Captain Cook Themes - Ships and Crew  After long periods at sea fresh supplies had to be collected whenever a landfall ... On striking the Great Barrier Reef in June 1770 the Endeavour was holed and ... For nearly two months between June and August 1770 the ship's craftsmen,...
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Wreckage of Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour may be in U.S. ...  May 4, 2016 ... The wreckage of the Endeavour,the storied British ship that Captain James .... believe they have found the wreck of Captain Cook's ship the Endeavour ... On July 12 it made its way into port in Dover, almost three years after it ... for repairs after her grounding on the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 ...... Out to sea!
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The Wreck of the Hesperus by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807 ...  It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken ... Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.
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First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia  The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus ... They resumed their journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good...
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James Cook - Military Leader, Explorer - Biography.com  May 16, 2016 ... British navigator James Cook discovered and charted New Zealand and Australia's ... of explorers, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. ... of 18, he was offered an apprenticeship by a Quaker shipowner in a small ... and the Great Barrier Reef of Australiasince credited as one of the world's...
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The History of Sydney: Early Cononial Sydney - Visit Sydney Australia  In 1808, he was unlawfully removed from office by officers of the NSW Corp. ... During Grose's term as colonial administrator in the absence of a Governor, the ... The Captain of the NSW Corps, George Johnston, ordered Macarthurs release. .... attempt to reach England with his account of the Rum Rebellion before Bligh did.
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James Cook: First Voyage  Enter James Cook, who had just returned from surveying Newfoundland, ... to find that Hawkesworth claimed in the introduction that Cook had seen and ... Captain Cook's Ship on His First Global Circumnavigation, 17681771 ... Shows Cook's passage by Cape Horn and the Bay of Success, where Banks's servants died.
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?? Saturday JEOPARDY - Discuss Cooking - Cooking Forums  ($2000)- As governor of New South Wales in 1806, he tried to suppress the "bountiful" rum trafficking... FINAL JEOPARDY- Quotations
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Flinders' voyage - State Library of South Australia  ... from 1801 to 1803, Matthew Flinders was the first to circumnavigate the island ... and were suspicious of their motives, particularly as the two countries were at war. ... of Nicolas Baudin at the location which became known as Encounter Bay.
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James Cook - New Zealand in History  On 8th October the Endeavour sailed into a bay, and laid anchor at the entrance of a small river in Tuuranga-nui (today's Poverty Bay, near modern Gisborne).
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Captain Cook`s Landing Site | Monument Australia  Captain Cook`s landing site is the place where Cook stepped ashore. ... the first British subject to die in Australia; monuments to Dr Solander and to Joseph Banks. ... Actual Event STart Date: 28-April-1770 ... and anchored under the south shore, ... Anniversary Of The Landing Of Captain James Cook And The Re-Enactment...
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Scientists: To save Great Barrier Reef, kill starfish  This Just In ...  Oct 2, 2012 ... Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost 50% of its coral since the mid-1980s, ... suffered damage from tropical cyclones (48%), the crown-of-thorns ... "However, we can act to reduce the impact of crown of thorns." ... According to the study, the starfish in its larval stage feeds on plankton, populations of which...
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Matthew Flinders - Wikipedia  Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774  19 July 1814) was an English navigator and ... Not long after their arrival in Port Jackson, Bass and Flinders made two ... the largest island in Bass Strait would later be named Flinders Island. .... and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the...
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On this day: Rum rebellion rocks Sydney - Australian Geographic  Jan 25, 2012 ... In 1808, NSW Governor William Bligh was ousted in Australia's first and only ... Mountains to sea: Hollyford. ... A political cartoon from after his arrest shows Bligh hiding under a bed. ... Some officers made money in the rum trade, but Bligh's treatment of property ... On this day: Captain James Cook sets sail
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Biography - Matthew Flinders - Australian Dictionary of Biography  Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), navigator, hydrographer and scientist, was ... Next year he sailed from England for Port Jackson in H.M.S. Reliance in which George ... from 7 October 1798 to 12 January 1799, and thus proved it to be an island. ... Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its Islands, and on Part of...
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Georgian Celebrity: Captain James Cook, Part 2: Cook's Voyages ...  Jan 28, 2015 ... On 23 April he made his first recorded direct observation of ... Cook's Journal: Daily Entries, 22 April 1770. ... Copley Gold Medal for completing his second voyage without losing a ... items which the British received in trade were sea otter pelts. .... James Lind and the Prevention of ScurvyIn "British history"...
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Second voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia  See also: First voyage of James Cook and Third voyage of James Cook. The second voyage of James Cook 17721775, commissioned by the British government with ... 17 January 1773, Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle ... and predicted that an Antarctic land would be found beyond the ice barrier.
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Captain James Cook - Wikipedia  Captain James Cook FRS RN (7 November 1728  14 February 1779) was a British explorer, ... Their house is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. .... of Australia on 19 April 1770, and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded ..... A granite vase just to the south of the museum marks the approximate spot...