The Island of Otaheite bearing S E distant one League (without title)

This engraving, after a drawing by artist William Hodges, is from the account of Cook's second voyage, 1772-75, [not, as previously stated here Hawkesworth's account of the first, published in 1773].


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. Hodges was on Cook's second voyage.

Otaheite (Tahiti) was originally named Port Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Island by Captain Samuel Wallis (1728-1795).

Mounted in album with PAI3938-PAI4035, PAI4037-PAI4076.; Page 85.

Object Details

ID: PAI4036
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Hodges, William
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1777
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 310 x 531 mm; Plate: 267 x 497 mm
Parts: Atlas to Cook's Voyages Vol I 1773-1777. (Illustrations are from Hawkesworth's 'Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere', all volumes, and Cook [ed. Douglas] 'A Voyage towards the South Pole... ' [1773-75], page 70 onwards) (Album)