On this day 19 April - Captain Cook and Eastern Australia

[7eat51]

On the 19th of April 1770, having just completed mapping the New Zealand coastline, Captain James Cook, commanding the Endeavour, reached the south-eastern coast of Australia at 6:00 p.m. He and his crew were the first recorded Europeans to see eastern Australia. Cook named the land New South Wales.

Captain James Cook:

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The Voyage:

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HMS Endeavour:

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For more information on Cook's travels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_cook
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/on-this-day-capt-james-cook-sets-sail-for-australia.htm
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cook-james-1917

[Cmmdre]

How exciting it would be to have the skill set and sail off into the unknown on a voyage of discovery and return. :hmmm:

[Berthier]

Great navigator, explorer and forward thinker who managed to sail to Aus and back without loosing a crewman to scurvy.

[csadn]

How exciting it would be to have the skill set and sail off into the unknown on a voyage of discovery and return. :hmmm:

Given the unlikelihood of the second part of that.... :P

[Cmmdre]

Yeah, and return. :hmmm: That would be the exciting part, not the murder at the hands of peoples he thought to be savages. But then again he pissed off the wrong guy. :shock: