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The vessels left for the Sandwich Islands on 24 October, sighting Maui on 26 November 1778. The two vessels sailed around the Hawaiian Archipelago for some eight weeks looking for a suitable anchorage, until they made landfall at Kealakekua Bay , on the west coast of Hawaii Island , the largest island in the group, on 17 January 1779.
Title page, 1778 Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World is Johann Reinhold Forster 's systematic account of the scientific and ethnological results of the second voyage of James Cook . Forster, a former pastor who had become a Fellow of the Royal Society after writing several papers on natural history , and his son Georg had ...
The Cook Landing Site in Waimea on Kauaʻi island in Hawaii, is where Captain James Cook landed at the mouth of the Waimea River on January 20, 1778. Cook was the first European reported to have sighted the Hawaiian Islands, [4] and the January 20 landfall on southwestern Kauaʻi was his first arrival upon Hawaiian soil.
On 2 February 1778, Cook continued on to the coast of North America and Alaska, mapping and searching for a Northwest Passage to the Atlantic Ocean for approximately nine months. In November, he returned to the island chain to resupply, initially exploring the coasts of Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii and trading with locals, then making ...
Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
Colonial epidemic disease in Hawaii has greatly threatened the Native Hawaiian population since its introduction to the islands over a hundred years ago. Beginning with the first colonizers led by Captain James Cook that arrived in the islands in 1778, [1] all the way up until today, foreign disease has been present in Native Hawaiians.
Fairway Rock was sighted by Captain James Cook on August 8, 1778. [17] It was named by the English naval officer and geographer Frederick William Beechey upon sighting the island in July 1826. Unlike the names he gave to the Diomede Islands, the name "Fairway" has persisted. [18]
In April 1778, Captain Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery anchored at Ship Cove, in King George's Sound, now known as Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada to refit. The crew took observations and recorded encounters with the local people. Webber made watercolour landscapes including "Resolution and Discovery in Ship Cove, 1778".