Sail Endeavour

Sail Endeavour

Commemorations (2019x)

Join the voyage of a lifetime and the most bucket-list-worthy adventure on the high seas! Learn to sail HMB Endeavour and experience 18th century blue water sailing at its best. This magnificent tall ship will sail to and from Tasmania, New Caledonia and New Zealand in 2019. For adventure seekers and history lovers alike, the professional crew will train you in all aspects of 18th century sailing.

Cabox Geopark Commemorates Cook Newfoundland Chart

Cabox Geopark Commemorates Cook Newfoundland Chart

Commemorations

On October 26, Cabox Geopark in Western Newfoundland commemorated the 250th Anniversary of James Cook’s ‘Chart of the West Coast of Newfoundland’. Considered by many to be Cook’s finest map, the chart was published a year after his last survey in Eastern Canada, after being selected to command a voyage to the Pacific Ocean to witness the transit of Venus and search for the fabled southern continent.

Australia National Library Cook and the Pacific Exhibit

Australia National Library Cook and the Pacific Exhibit

Commemorations (2019x)

Visitors to Cook and the Pacific will follow James Cook’s three remarkable Pacific voyages, and explore this spectacular region through the eyes of the British voyagers and the First Nations peoples they met. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey to the Pacific 250 years ago, with destinations including Tahiti, New Zealand, the east coast of Australia, Hawaii and even Siberia.

Uncharted: Sam Neill explores Captain Cook’s travels from ‘both sides of the beach’

Uncharted: Sam Neill explores Captain Cook’s travels from ‘both sides of the beach’

Commemorations (2019x)

Sam Neill says he is fascinated with those “initial awkward, often funny, sometimes tragic first encounters” between Captain Cook, his crew, and the people they met in the Pacific.

When we think about Cook’s time in the Pacific, ‘funny’ isn’t usually the first, or even the second, word that comes to mind. But in this six-part series helmed by Neill, viewers discover the very human, and sometimes humorous, side of Cook’s three voyages to the Pacific.

Cook’s Secret Orders Revealed

Cook’s Secret Orders Revealed

Commemorations (2019x)

Two hundred and fifty years ago today, Lieutenant James Cook sailed a 30m coal carrier named Endeavour out of Plymouth, England, plotting a course for wonder, immortality and a turquoise-edged, red-hearted paradise we’d come to call Australia. There should have been fireworks that day; angel-voiced choristers and a hundred stout men with snare drums lining the Plymouth dockyards.