Captain Cook’s First Voyage Round The World

The following slideshow and image gallery show screenshots taken from Captain Cook’s First Voyage Round The World, a presentation of Cook’s journal containing more than 15 hours of animation and audio.

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Plymouth, August 1768

Madeira, 13Sep1768

Tenerife, 24Sep1768

Rio de Janeiro, 14Nov1768

Success Bay, 16Jan1769

Cape Horn, 25Jan1769

Lagoon Island, 04Apr1769

Tahiti, 11Apr1769

Huaheine, 17Jul1769

Poverty Bay, 09Oct1769

Mount Egmont, 14Jan1770

Ship Cove, 16Jan1770

South Cape, 10Mar1770

Doubtful Sound, 14Mar1770

Cape Farewell, 23Mar1770

Australia, 19Apr1770

Botany Bay, 28Apr1770

Whitsunday Passage, 04Jun1770

Endeavour Reef, 11Jun1770

Endeavour River, 22Jun1770

Cook’s Passage, 14Aug1770

Providential Channel, 17Aug1770

Amongst shoals, 17Aug1770

Cape York, 21Aug1770

Endeavour Strait, 22Aug1770

Sunda Strait, 01Oct1770

Dysentery, 31Jan1771

Cape of Good Hope, 13Mar1771

Cape Town, 15Mar1771

Robben Island, 15Apr1771

Ascension, 10May1771

Land’s End, 10Jul1771

Dover, 13Jul1771

To view the presentation, point your web browser to http://www.hazelhurst.net/Cook/ and install the Google Earth plug-in if you don’t already have it installed.

Copyright © Colin Hazlehurst, 2012

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If you enjoyed Cook’s voyage, you might also like Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World, a similar virtual re-enactment of a famous sea voyage by the first single-handed circumnavigator; this presentation is still under construction.

 

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