An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq, Band 3W. Strahan and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773 First edition of the narrative of Cook's first voyage. Volume I contains accounts of the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, including the discovery of Tahiti; volumes II and III contain Hawkesworth's edited account of Captain [then Lieutenant] Cook's voyage. Cook had been commissioned to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti and to carry on John Byron's survey and exploration of the seas between Cape Horn and New Holland, and he added more than 5000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reff and New Zealand which he circumnavigated. |
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... lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant ...
... lies N. E. N. and S. W. S. The north west end of the ridge rifes inland , not far from Cape Campbell ; and both the mountain and the ridge are diftinctly seen as well from Cape Koamaroo as Cape Pallifer : from Koamaroo they are diftant ...
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... lies about five Banks's leagues from the coaft of Tovy Poenammoo ; the fouth point bears S. 21 W. from the highest peak on the snowy mountain , and lies in latitude 43 ° 32 ′ S. and in longitude 186 ° 30 ' W. by an observation of the ...
... lies about five Banks's leagues from the coaft of Tovy Poenammoo ; the fouth point bears S. 21 W. from the highest peak on the snowy mountain , and lies in latitude 43 ° 32 ′ S. and in longitude 186 ° 30 ' W. by an observation of the ...
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... lies S. E. fix leagues from the fouthermost part of the land , and S. E. by E. from fome remarkable hills which fland near the fhore : about three leagues to the northward of it , there is another ledge , which lies full three leagues ...
... lies S. E. fix leagues from the fouthermost part of the land , and S. E. by E. from fome remarkable hills which fland near the fhore : about three leagues to the northward of it , there is another ledge , which lies full three leagues ...
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... lies in latitude 47 ° 19 ′ S. longitude 192 ° 12 ′ W. I named SOUTH CAPE ; the weftermost land was a small island , lying off the point of the main . Suppofing South Cape to be the fouthern extremity of this country , as indeed it ...
... lies in latitude 47 ° 19 ′ S. longitude 192 ° 12 ′ W. I named SOUTH CAPE ; the weftermost land was a small island , lying off the point of the main . Suppofing South Cape to be the fouthern extremity of this country , as indeed it ...
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... lies in latitude 46 ° 31 ́S . longitude 192 ° 49 ′ W. and is nothing but a barren rock about a mile in circuit , re- markably high , and lies full five leagues distant from the main . This island I named after Dr. Solander , and called ...
... lies in latitude 46 ° 31 ́S . longitude 192 ° 49 ′ W. and is nothing but a barren rock about a mile in circuit , re- markably high , and lies full five leagues distant from the main . This island I named after Dr. Solander , and called ...
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