![]() Exhibited: "Treasures Gallery", National Library of Australia, 7 October 2011 - 15 December 2012. Selected items exhibited in: "Cook and Pacific" National Library of Australia, 19 September 2018 - 10 February 2019. | Endeavour (Ship) | Explorers - Great Britain - Correspondence. Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia, A624.Ĭook, James, 1728-1779 - Correspondence. ![]() Negative photostats available for reference.Īlso available on microfilm at the National Library of Australia Main Reading Room - Newspapers and Family History at mfm G 3921. ![]() Cook was killed on 14 February 1779 in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). In 1777, Cook's third voyage explored the Pacific coasts of North America and Siberia. In 1772 Cook led a second expedition to confirm the great south land. Cook took formal possession of New South Wales for England. And charted 5000 miles of coastline with great accuracy. On 19 April 1770 Cook sighted another coastline. In 1769 Cook circumnavigated New Zealand, charted its coast and took formal possession for England. The Admiralty in 'secret instructions' asked Cook to find the mythical southern continent. In 1768 Cook was promoted to become commander of Endeavour Bark sent to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus. In North America he took part in the siege of Quebec City, and began coastal surveys of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. In 1755 he joined the Royal Navy and steadily advanced. Apprenticed to a coal shipper in Whitby he began to learn the skills of sound navigation and accurate charting. James Cook was born in 1728 in Yorkshire. The Secret Instructions are bound in a letterbook with the correspondence (1 v., 5 items). The collection includes the Secret Instructions and Additional Instructions issued to Cook by the Admirality. relating to the first voyage of HMS Endeavour. MS 2 comprises contemporary manuscript copies of James Cook's correspondence with the Admiralty Victualling Office, etc.
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