HMS Bark Endeavour - Replica
May 2, 2008: HM Bark Endeavour at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia.
May 2, 2008: HM Bark Endeavour at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia.
May 2, 2008: HM Bark Endeavour at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia.
When Captain Cook first sighted Australia in 1770. In his journal on the Endeavour he describes the landscape thus: “...With the first daylight this morn the land was seen, it made in sloping hill covered in part with trees and bushes, but interspersed with large tracts of sand…I have named it point Hicks because Lieutenant (Zachariah) Hicks was the first to discover this land..” April 19th 1770.