In 2019, a national commemoration – Tuia Encounters 250 – will mark 250 years since the first meetings between Māori and Europeans during Captain James Cook and the Endeavour’s 1769 voyage to New Zealand. The Department of Internal Affairs has announced that $9M will be available for community projects that align with the kaupapa of Tuia – Encounters 250.
As Australia and the world prepares for next year’s 250th anniversary of Endeavour’s departure in 1768, the Australian newspaper tells the five-part story of a voyage that transformed our knowledge of mathematics, navigation, geology, geography, botany, psychology, nutrition, astronomy, medicine, cartography and languages….
In November 2019 it will be the 250th anniversary since Captain Cook came to NZ and sailed into Mercury Bay, which will host a replica of the HMS Endeavour for eight days, playing a significant role in celebrations to mark the 250th year since Captain James Cook made his first landfall in New Zealand.
A PROPOSED exhibition in 2020 at the National Museum of Australia to mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s arrival in Australia, brought the museum’s senior curator Ian Coates to Gisborne this week. HMS Endeavour arrived on the east coast of New Zealand in 1769 and on the east coast of Australia in 1770.
The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Cook’s exploration of the east coast of Australia and the nation will be celebrating. Our community of Town of 1770/Agnes Water will take part in the national celebrations and the Cook 250 in 1770 team, has been assembled to oversee this momentous event.
James Cook’s Endeavour journal is perhaps the most famous item in the National Library of Australia’s collection. With the 250th anniversary of the first Endeavour voyage sailing into view in 2018-2020, the Library’s 2016 End of Year Appeal is raising funds to undertake essential preservation and selective digitisation of our extraordinary collection of material …