Chart of the Friendly Islands

This chart is in John Hawkesworth's account (1773) of the voyages of Captain James Cook, Joseph Banks and Captain John Byron.

Captain James Cook (1728-1779) made three separate voyages to the Pacific (with the ships Endeavour, Resolution, Adventure, and Discovery) and did more than any other voyager to explore the Pacific and Southern Ocean. Cook not only encountered Pacific cultures for the first time, but also assembled the first large-scale collections of Pacific objects to be brought back to Europe. He was killed in Hawaii in 1779.

The Friendly Isles, now known as Tonga, were so named because of the convivial reception afforded to Captain Cook on his arrival in 1773.


Mounted in album with PAI2055-PAI2073, PAI2075-PAI2127.; No.18.

Object Details

ID: PAI2074
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hodges, William; Woolett
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1777
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 210 x 322 mm; page: 460 mm x 590 mm
Parts: Volume of Plates to Cook's Voyages. Voyage II (Album)