From Captain Cook to the First Fleet: how Botany Bay was chosen over Africa as a ... Cook’s chart of Botany Bay. ... A drawing by John Webber depicting the arrival of Cook’s ship in Nootka ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, ... Captain Cook and his crew on the ship Endeavour landed in Australia for the first time on 29 April 1770, ...

The plan, revealed today, will see the Kamay Botany Bay National Park transformed to include a $3 million "aquatic monument" of Captain James Cook, a museum, visitors centre and ferry wharves.

Budget cuts millions from ABC to pay for Captain Cook statue at Botany Bay Shock and outrage after decision to rip funding from public broadcaster to help fund a statue celebrating colonial ...

Cambridge, England | A set of spears souvenired by Captain James Cook during his first encounter with Indigenous Australians in Sydney’s Botany Bay, almost exactly 254 years ago, has been handed ...

The weapons were given to Trinity College, Cambridge, soon after Cook returned to England on the HMS Endeavour in 1771. His landing on the shores of Kamay (Botany Bay) near Sydney in 1770 was ...

Cook led a British expedition that landed at Botany Bay in 1770 and planted a British flag there. The First Fleet arrived 18 years later, sailing into Sydney Harbour on January 26, 1788.

New Captain Cook monument plan for Botany Bay divides opinion. 29 April 2018. ... Captain Cook and his crew on the ship Endeavour landed in Australia for the first time on 29 April 1770, ...

The A$50m (£36.2m/US$68.9m) plans are for Botany Bay in Sydney, the spot where British explorer Captain James Cook first landed in 1770. Australia Treasurer Scott Morrison said it would be "a ...

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