The map of the first journey
The Birth of the Commonwealth: Know Britain. Captain Cook's first voyage maps. (2004). Retrieved from www.know-britain.com/general/commonwealth.html
26 August 1768. It is the beginning of the great journey, we set sail from Portsmouth, England. There are 94 men on the ship and Captain Cook is in command. We have enough food to last for eighteen months! The first job that Captain Cook is given is to travel to Tahiti to observe and record the transit of Venus across the sun. This is to work out the distance from earth to the sun. Then we are off to explore the great unknown southern land, what an adventure!
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