Transcript Captain Cook’s first journey to Australia

Captain Cook’s first
journey to Australia
Captain Cook’s life facts
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Born November 7, 1728 died February 14,
1779.
Born in England to a poor family. Joined the
Navy in 1755 as a teenager.
He was a explorer, navigator, cartographer
and eventually Captain of the Royal Navy.
He made 3 voyages to the Pacific exploring
Australia, Hawaiian Islands and New
Zealand.
Captain Cook’s Voyages
Legend: first trip Green.
Second Trip Red.
Third Trip Blue.
The reason for Captain
Cooks Voyages
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In 1768, Cook began the first of the three great Pacific
voyages which would see him chart the whole ocean,
from New Zealand to the Arctic, so accurately that his
charts can still be used today. Cook spent over eight
and a half years charting
previously unknown islands.
Cook's ship for his first Pacific voyage was H.M. Bark
Endeavour. The aim of the voyage was to observe the
passage of Venus over the disc of the Sun from Tahiti
and then to search for a "Great Southern Continent"
south of Tahiti. Endeavour left Plymouth on 25 August
1768, called at Madeira and Rio de Janeiro and, after
rounding Cape Horn, reached Tahiti on 10 April 1769.
The transit of Venus was duly recorded on 3 June 1769
and Cook soon began the second part of the voyage.