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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 23,596 Send Message	JoyBoroAngel	Report	26 Aug 2018 22:35
	On this day 26th August 1768 Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour. Cook departed from Plymouth on 26 August 1768, carrying 94 people and 18 months of provisions. The ship rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to arrive at Matavai Bay, Tahiti on 13 April 1769, where the observations were to be made. The transit was scheduled to occur on 3 June, and in the meantime he commissioned the building of a small fort and observatory at what is now known as Point Venus. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". :-D :-D
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