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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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.
Written by netkingcol
August 24, 2012 at 9:38 am
Posted in Australia, discovery, exploration, geography, Google Earth, history, New Zealand
Tagged with Ascension, Australlia, Batavia, Botany Bay, Cape Agulhas, Cape Farewell, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, Cape York, Captain Cook, Circumnavigation, Doubtful Bay, Dover, Dysentery, Endeavour, Endeavour Reef, Endeavour River, English Channel, First voyage, Joshua Slocum, Krakatoa, Lizard Island, Longitude, Madeira, Mount Egmont, New Zealand, Plymouth, Possession Island, Poverty Bay, Providential Channel, Queen Charlotte Sound, Rio de Janeiro, Robben Island, Ship Cove, Society Islands, South Cape, St. Helena, Success Bay, Sunda Strait, Table Mountain, Tahiti, Tasman, Tierra del Fuego, Transit of Venus, Whitsunday Passage
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