ABC Wednesday, E of Endeavour

Replica on the Endeavour River

In the Cooktown Library hangs this beatiful poster of the Endeavour, HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour.

. She was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771.

Wikipedia:

In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia, when Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay. Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast. She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her. He then beached her on the mainland for seven weeks to permit rudimentary repairs to her hull. On 10 October 1770, she limped into port in Batavia (now named Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had discovered. She resumed her westward journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 13 March 1771, and reached the English port of Dover on 12 July, having been at sea for nearly three years.

The place where Captain James Cook landed in Queensland is called Cook's Landing in Cooktown named after Captain Cook.It's now an eating place where we often ate Fish and Chips.

Cook's Landing

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