Cook's First Voyage: 1768-1771, Endeavour

United Kingdom

26/08/1768

Departs from Plymouth.

Portugal - Madeira

12/09/1768

Anchors at Madeira.

Cabo Verde

Oct 1768

Took bearings from Boa Vista in Cape Verde Islands.

Brasil

28/10/1768
08/11/1768
13/11/1768
07/12/1768

In the latitude of Island Ferdinand Noronha.
Sights Brasil.
Anchors at Rio de Janeiro.
Leaves Rio de Janeiro.

Republica Argentina

15/01/1769

Anchors in the Bay of Good Success, Tierra del Fuego.

Chile

25/01/1769

Doubles Cape Horn.

Pitcairn Islands

01/04/1769 

Just missed Pitcairn Island.

Polynésie Française

04/04/1769
11/04/1769
03/06/1769
26/06/1769
09/08/1769

Sights Tuamotu Islands
Sights Tahiti.
Transit of Venus observed.
Circumnavigates Tahiti.
Departs from the Society Islands.

 

02/09/1769

Fails to find Southern Continent and heads north.

Aotearoa -
New Zealand

07/10/1769
16/01/1770
07/02/1770
27/03/1770

Sights coast of North Island, New Zealand.
Anchors in Queen Charlotte Sound, South Island.
Departs from Queen Charlotte Sound.
Completes circumnavigation of South and North islands.

Australia

19/04/1770
28/04/1770
10/06/1770
13/08/1770

Sights the coast of New Holland.
Lands at Botany Bay.
Endeavour strikes coral reef.
Repaired Endeavour takes to sea again.

Papua New Guinea

Sept 1770
03/09/1770

Passes through the Torres Straits to the South of New Guinea.
Lands on the coast of New Guinea with Banks and Solander.

Timor

11/09/1770

Saw land that Cook correctly assumed to be Timor. Did not land.

Republik Indonesia

18/09/1770
11/10/1770
26/12/1770

Stops at the island of Savu.
Arrives at Batavia and anchors.
Departs from Batavia with many crew suffering from fever.

South Africa

14/03/1771
16/04/1771

Arrives at Table Bay, Cape Town.
Departs from Table Bay for England.

St. Helena

01/05/1771

Stops at St. Helena.

Ascension Island

11/05/1771

Passing visit.

United Kingdom

13/07/1771

Anchors off Deal, Kent.