This captain discovered the Great Barrier Reef the hard way, by running the Endeavour onto it
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Every Day Is Special: June 11  Discovery of a Great Reef  Jun 11, 2016 ... On this date in 1770, English explorer and naval officer Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef the hard way  by running his ship The Endeavor aground on it! Once your ship is aground, it's not so easy to fix...
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Discovering the Great Barrier Reef - June 11 / Today in Science ...  Capt. James Cook, commander of the British ship Endeavour, discovered the ... the Great Barrier Reef on this day in 1770 the hard way by running aground on it.
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Australia - Captain James Cook - Stuck On The Great Barrier Reef  The natives thought him a god and treated the crew with great kindness, but ... the voyage of the Endeavour, when the ship encountered the Great Barrier Reef off ... calmly that it is hard to believe they are alone and halfway around the world, ... into the boat, and were going to carry it out the same way; but upon sounding a...
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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 Island? ... An engraving by Rennoldson of Captain Cook's ship laid on the .... to be able to prove that he had indeed discovered the Great Southern Continent,...
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Endeavour Reef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Endeavour Reef is a coral reef within the Great Barrier Reef. It is within the Shire of Cook, ... and stated that there was a dry rock on the western edge "... in latitude 15 ... In 1969 an underwater search discovered the six abandoned cannons, ballast ... EBook of Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World,...
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Adventure Travel - National Geographic Adventure Magazine  It was supposed to have been a straightforward salvage job,or at least as ... Jones's ship, the Bonhomme Richard, was known to have sunk somewhere along ... of character, scorning surrender with the words I have not yet begun to fight! .... Captain John Paul Jones, its new commander, was a tough, uncompromising naval...
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Early explorers  traversing the continent | australia.gov.au  Dec 18, 2008 ... Most expeditions were officially sponsored, but some were commissioned by private ... Occasionally Aboriginal names were used, for example, Murrumbidgee. ... It was also one of the worst failures, with many men needlessly losing their lives. ... The fascination with these explorers has never dwindled.
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THE SEARCH FOR SOMETHING  "Then ye'll have to jog along behind the ship until we stop next and ye can hop .... Captain Scar dug his feet into the roof rack and delved his existing hand into his ..... Also, where the Land Pirates' ship had merely had sails, the Sky Pirates' ..... to wear on his shoulder, but he hadn't been prepared to shell out the price most...
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Captain Cook: Master of the Seas by Frank McLynn | Paperback ...  Sep 25, 2012 ... He shows how the Captain's life was one of struggle--with himself, with ... and the British Navy to lead the first expedition to the South Pacific was a strategic, ... The life and eventual death of one of the most famous explorers in history .... Another Mary, born in 1740, lasted just ten months, while a third son,...
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Doomed Expedition To The Pole, 1912 - EyeWitness to History  The journal of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Scott describes the final days of his failed expedition. ... They knew they were in a race to be the first to reach their destination. ... Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority. ... The final page of Scott's journal...
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America: Picturesque and Descriptive - Joel Cook - Google Books  Page 89 - It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea ; And the skipper ... Like a sheeted ghost the vessel swept Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.
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Captain James Cook, British explorer - Historic UK  ... John Walker, a ship owner from Whitby, who took him on as an apprentice seaman. ... In 1750, Cook's apprenticeship with the Walkers ended, though he carried ... Cook was asked to observe the 1769 transit of Venus from the South Pacific. ... The Endeavour was to become one of the most famous ships ever to put to sea.
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12 Cool Facts About the Great Barrier Reef - Small World Journeys  The Great Barrier Reef stretches 2 300km from the Torres Strait to just north of ... 350 types of hard coral and a third of all the world's soft corals;; 5,000 to 8,000 ... and all sorts of creatures at the Great Barrier Reef on some of our cool reef trips:.
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Darwin's Voyage of Discovery - McGraw Hill Higher Education  Charles Darwin was only 22 years old when he set out in 1831 on his epic five-year, around-the-world voy- age aboard the ... board the Beagle. Darwin turned out to be ... As the Beagle sailed slowly along the coast of South America, mapping...
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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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The Voyages of Charles Darwin | ReVista  We often forget that the most creative years of Charles Darwin's life were passed in South America. ... The ship that brought him to the continent was HMS Beagle, captained by Robert ... Long afterwards he declared in his Autobiography, The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has...
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Finding passage with Captain Cook at state history museum | The ...  Oct 15, 2015 ... ... might accomplish what Captain James Cook set out to do 237 years ... Cook searched for the long-sought navigable passage between the...
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James Cook: First Voyage  Frontispiece to Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole . ... Cook was already on his way back from his second Pacific voyage, temporarily docked at ... Captain Cook's Ship on His First Global Circumnavigation, 17681771 ... After Cook's voyage, Endeavour was refitted as a stores ship, made a few trips to the Falkland...
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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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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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Baudin expedition to Australia - Wikipedia  The Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia). Nicolas Baudin was selected as leader in October 1800. The expedition started with two ships, Gographe, captained by Baudin, and ... Upon rounding Cape Naturaliste, they entered Geographe Bay. During...