Captain Cook and the Pacific |
Common terms and phrases
Admiralty Adventure April ashore astronomy Atlantic Australia Banks and Solander Banksia began boats Botany Bay Bouvet brave Boys British cabins called canoes Cape Horn Captain charts coast coastline command Cook anchored Cook and Banks Cook decided crew Dalrymple deck Deptford discovered discovery Dr Solander ducked east Endeavour Endeavour River England expedition explored Fellows fire French fresh water friendly Furneaux Guinea guns holes Holland Hope island James Cook John Joseph Banks land Lieutenant Madeira Maoris maps marines masts Mate natives navy Newfoundland Nootka Sound northwards observations Omai Palliser party plants provisions Queen Charlotte's Sound reef refit repair Resolution rigging round Royal Society sailors Sandwich scurvy seamen sent Servant ship ship's sighted South Seas Southern Continent specimens stay Sydney Parkinson Tahiti Tahitians Tasman Tasmania Terra Australis Incognita Tierra del Fuego Tolaga Bay took Torres Strait transit of Venus Tupia voyage Wallis wanted Whitby Zealand