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Endeavour 250: natural history through colonial encounter
In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus - before opening sealed orders for a secret assignment.
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Daniel Solander: a Linnaean disciple on HMS Endeavour
Solander was invited aboard the expedition by friend and fellow naturalist Joseph Banks. The pair spent their round-the-world travels aboard HMS Endeavour(also known as HM Bark Endeavour) collecting ...
Next generation of nuclear deterrent submarines ‘a commitment to defence’
The Prime Minister attended a keel-laying ceremony in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, for the first of the Dreadnought class of ...
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Falklands' Museum incorporates naval journal with accounts of Port Egmont 250 year ago
Penguin was a small prefabricated armed sailing vessel which was carried to Port Egmont aboard the much larger and much more famous ship HMS Endeavour. Endeavour had carried Captain James Cook on ...
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Maua le tino o le HMS Endeavour
E malosi le talitonuga o se 'au maulu mai Ausetalia nei ua latou mauaina le tino o le HMS Endeavour. O le va'a lenei na malaga mai ai le alii folau Peretania o Captain James Cook ma ia asia ai ...
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250 years since Captain Cook arrived in Australia, his legacy remains fraught
Wednesday marks 250 years since HMS Endeavour sailed into Botany Bay. A descendent of one of the Aboriginal men he first encountered there says the anniversary is an emotional one. "As we ...