which you’ll see in its entirety from the boat, was the site of Captain James Cook’s first landing in New Zealand in 1769 on the HMS Endeavour. According to Maori legend, it was also the site ...

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti ... members of the crew went ashore at night in small boats. Wiñay wayna (Epidendrum ...

Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.