Cook's Third Voyage: 1776-1780, Resolution and Discovery

United Kingdom

 July 1776

Leaves England for the last time.

España

01/08/1776

Anchors at Tenerifein the Canary Islands.

Cabo Verde

16/08/1776

Brief stop to see whether the Discovery had arrived.

South Africa

18/09/1776
30/11/1776
12/12/1776

Cape of Good Hope.
Leaves the Cape of Good Hope.
Prince Edward Island.

Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises

25/12/1776
20/12/1776

Arrives at Kerguelen Island.
Leaves Kerguelen Island.

Australia

26/01/1777
30/01/1777

Van Diemen's Land.
Leaves Australia.

Aotearoa - New Zealand

12/02/1777
25/02/1777

Short stay in New Zealand.
Leaves New Zealand for the last time.

Cook Islands

29/03/1777
31/03/1777
06/04/1777
14/04/1777

Unfriendly reception at Mangaia.
Sighted island of Atiu.
Manuae
Landed at Palmerston Island

Niue

25/04/1777

Passed Savage Island in the night.

Tonga

28/04/1777
July 1777

Visits Tongan islands
Leaves Tonga.

Polynésie Française

12/08/1777

Tahiti for the last time.

Kiribati

24/12/1777

Christmas (Kiritimati) Island. Takes on turtles.

United States of America - Hawaii

20/01/1778

Discovers smaller islands of the Hawaiian group.

Canada

30/03/1778

Nootka Sound

United States of America - Alaska

25/05/1778
June 1778
Sept 1778

Cook Inlet.
Unalaska for the first time.
Arctic Sea

Rossija

Late Sept 1778

Mapped the eastern Russian Arctic coast.

United States of America - Alaska

02/10/1778

Unalaska for the second time.

United States of America - Hawaii

25/11/1778
17/01/1779
04/02/1779
08/02/1779
14/02/1779
15/03/1779

Back in the Hawaiian Islands
At Kealakekua Bay
Leaves Kealakekua Bay
Resolution loses foremast and heads back for Hawaii
Death of Cook
Sails for Kamchatka

Rossija

23/04/1779
29/04/1779
Jun-Aug
22/08/1779
24/08/1779
09/10/1779

Sights Kamchatka
Anchors near Petropavlovsk.
Continued exploration to the North
Clerke dies of consumption
Back in Kamchatka
Leaves Kamchatka

Nippon

26/10/1779
15/11/1779

Sights islands of Japan
Last sight of Japan

Republic of China

24/11/1779

Off the island of Formosa

People's Republic of China

30/11/1779

Sights Lema islands on the approach to Canton.

Macao - China

01/12/1779
13/01/1780

Anchors at roads near Macao.
Leaves Macao.

Viet Nam

20/01/1780

Off Con Doa island.

Republik Indonesia

28/01/1780
12/02/1780
19/02/1780

In Straits of Banka
At anchor Princes Island
Sails for Cape of Good Hope

South Africa

12/04/1780
09/05/1780

Arrived at Simonstown. Resolution's rudder repaired.
Left for Britain

United Kingdom

21/08/1780
22/08/1780
20/09/1780
30/09/1780
07/10/1780

Off Western Isles of Scotland
Anchors at Stromness in the Orkneys
Leaves Stromness
At anchor, Yarmouth Roads
Resolution at Deptford, Discovery at Woolwich