In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific, received from a Polynesian priest named Tupaia an astonishing gift—a map ...
Captain James Cook's pioneering journeys across the Pacific in the eighteenth century changed the course of science. They also provided us with a superb visual record of this period of exploration.
Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander published little in his lifetime. But through his botanic collections from his travels and a rigorous application of a revolutionary naming system, he laid important ...
South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James ... first issue commemorates Possession itself and the start of South Georgia’s 250-year journey from obscurity to the modern age. Cook and ...
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