Alexander Dalrymple supervised the engravings. The Library holds five maps and five coastal views published in — The Library holds a number of objects that allegedly belonged to Cook, such as a walking stick, a clothes brush and a fork.
A more substantial artefact is a mahogany and rosewood fall-front desk that was believed to have been used by Cook on one of his voyages. Three of the medals issued by the Royal Society in to commemorate the achievements of Cook are held in the Library. Another medal issued in to commemorate his voyages is also held. Clothes brush said to have been the property of Captain Cook. Mahogany fall-front bureau believed to have been used by Captain Cook. Compass, protractor, ruler and spirit level owned by Alexander Hood.
Commemorative medal to celebrate the voyages of Captain James Cook Medal to commemorate the voyages of Captain Cook Sample of tapa cloth and two reed mats brought back by Alex Hood. A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook. It also holds two oil portraits by unknown artists, one being a copy of the portrait by Dance held in the National Maritime Museum in London.
There were two artists on the Endeavour : Alexander Buchan, who died in Tahiti in , and Sydney Parkinson, who died in Batavia in The Library has a few original works that have been attributed to Parkinson, in particular a watercolour of breadfruit, which is in the Nan Kivell Collection.
In addition, there are a number of prints that were reproduced in the publications of Hawkesworth and Parkinson in , including the interior of a Tahitian house, the fort at Point Venus, a view of Matavai Bay, Maori warriors and war canoes, mountainous country on the west coast of New Zealand, and a view of Endeavour River. William Hodges was the artist on the Resolution in — The Library holds an outstanding collection of 18 chalk drawings by Hodges of the heads of Pacific Islanders.
Other works by Hodges include an oil painting of a dodo and a red parakeet, watercolours of Tahiti, Tonga and the New Hebrides, and an oil painting of Point Venus. There are also two pen and wash drawings of the Resolution by John Elliott, who was a midshipman on the ship. John Webber, who was on the Resolution in —80, had been trained as a landscape artist in Berne and Paris.
Ellis is equally well represented, with 23 watercolours, ink drawings and pencil drawings of scenes in Kerguelen Island, New Zealand, Tahiti, Nootka Sound, Alaska and Kamchatka. Of particular interest is a watercolour and ink drawing by Ellis of the Resolution and Discovery moored in Adventure Bay in , the earliest original Australian work in the Pictures Collection.
Omai, the first Polynesian to be seen in London, was the subject of a number of portraits, included a celebrated painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Library has a pencil drawing of Omai by Reynolds. The Library holds a collection of 17 watercolour costume designs for the pantomime, drawn by Philippe de Loutherbourg and based mainly on drawings by Webber.
James Cook, during the years , 3, 4 and 5 2 vols, American business executive and engineer Tim Cook has served as chief executive officer of Apple since August James Polk was the 11th president of the United States, known for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War.
English explorer Henry Hudson embarked on multiple sailing voyages that provided new information on North American water routes. Captain Edward J.
Smith played a role in one of the most famous disasters at sea in history, the sinking of the Titanic in James Garfield is best known as the 20th president of the United States. He was assassinated after only a few months in office. Cook wanted to confirm that there was no Terra Australis Incognita or large "unknown southern land", so he completed two more voyages in the Pacific.
There still remained unexplored ocean to the east of New Zealand, where a great continent could lie. On his second voyage —75 Cook used New Zealand as a base to explore south and east, which finally proved there was no such continent. Both ships spent time in New Zealand waters between trips into the unexplored parts of the Pacific.
During one of these trips Cook charted much of Dusky Sound in Fiordland, where he spent six weeks in the autumn of During his third voyage —79 , Cook also visited New Zealand. Ready for a quiz? Try the "Cook's Voyages and Navigation" activity. The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red, second voyage in green, and third voyage in blue.
The route of Cook's crew following his death is shown as a dashed blue line. Image: Jon Platek. Captain Cook's maps were surprisingly accurate apart from assuming that Banks Peninsula was an island and Stewart Island was part of the South Island. The British fort in Tahiti became a meeting point and trade center for the British and the islanders. Tierra del Fuego, off the southern tip of South America, was one of the first stops Cook made on his Endeavour voyage.
During this time the artist Alexander Buchan drew pictures of the Haush people, the land's inhabitants. Cook first landed on the Tongan islands during his second voyage in October Taken with the warm welcome he received from locals, he named Tonga the "Friendly islands.
During his stay in Tahiti in April , Cook became friends with Tupaia, a priest and navigator from a nearby island. Tupaia joined the voyage and sailed on the Endeavour to New Zealand and Australia.
Similarities between the Tahitian langauge and the language of the Maori people in New Zealand meant that Tupaia could act as an interpreter. William Hodges was appointed the official artist of Cook's second voyage. The voyage proved that this great land mass was non-existent, and caused the voyagers to cross the Antarctic Circle three times.
This is the history that the British Library in London set out to explore in their exhibition of images and artifacts from Cook's three famous voyages. The exhibit compiles original artworks, natural specimens, written accounts and jewelry from the voyages alongside material that reflects contemporary attitudes to Captain Cook in the places he reached.
Cook captained three voyages to the south Pacific. The first set sail in and brought the explorers to Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. But Cook had failed to find the Great Southern Continent, so in two ships embarked on a second voyage, which ultimately disproved the existence of the envisioned continent.
The ships instead circled the south Pacific twice, charting islands which had not been accurately marked on European maps before and crossing the Antarctic circle three times. This was the closest the explorers came to uncovering their vision of the Great Southern Continent encircling the South Pole.
Though they were the first crew to cross the Antarctic circle, the continent itself would not be discovered and named until
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