The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and hte Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides, c. 2024.
Overview:
- England -- departed -- July 12, 1776
- South Africa
- Tasmania (island south of Australia)
- South Pacific
- Tonga
- Tahiti -- Society Islands -- August 12 -- December 8, 1777
- Hawaii -- arrives January 1778
- hugs North American coast (northwest "US" / along "Canadian" coast / along "Alaska"
- North Pacific
- Unalaska (south of Bering Strait) -- arrived July 1778 (exactly two years)
- Bering Strait
- Arctic Sea -- arrives August 1778
Return:
- Arctic Sea -- departs September 1778
- straight shot to Hawaii
- Hawaii -- arrives -- December 1778
- Hawaii -- dies -- February 1779
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Society Islands
The islands, link here. Wiki, link here.
- Bora Bora
- Huahine
- Moorea
- Raiatea
- Taha'a
- Tahiti
- Tetiaroa
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