Friday, May 31, 2024

The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and hte Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides, c. 2024.

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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