In 2018 the National Maritime Museum will open its new ‘Endeavour Galleries’, allowing the Museum to take a lead role in Cook 250 – the commemoration of Lieutenant James Cook’s 1768 departure down the River Thames in HM Bark ‘Endeavour’ on the first of his three voyages of exploration to the Pacific.
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 …
Throughout summer 2017, new James Cook 250 Exhibits were held at key locations in Western Newfoundland, from Benoit’s Cove and Gillams in the Bay of Islands to the Discovery Center at Woody Point in Gros Morne National Park.
The Corner Brook Museum and Archives will celebrate Cook 250 through its permanent exhibit of ‘Cook and Canada’ developed in partnership with the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby, Yorkshire, England. The exhibit includes a copy of Cook’s map of the southern half of the West Coast of Newfoundland
On July 26, 2017, a 1.6 km scenic walking trail to Tortoise Head in Blow Me Down Provincial Park was designated the “James Cook Heritage Trail”. Joining Cabox Aspiring Geopark and Outer Bay of Islands Enhancement Committee members were special guests David Startzell, long-time Executive Director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and his wife Judy, former Editor of magazine A.T. Journeys.
On Canada Day 2017, the OBIEC / IATNL ‘Copper Mine To Cape Trail’ in York Harbour was designated the ‘Cape Blow Me Down Trail’ in honour of James Cook and his 1767 survey of the Bay of Islands. A number of storyboards at the trailhead and along the route to the Cape will tell the story of Cook in the bay.