Sketch of Van Diemen Land Explored by Captn Furneaux in March 1773

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.

Captain Tobias Furneaux accompanied Cook on his second voyage and was the first man to circumnavigate the world in both directions. Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by Europeans for what is now Tasmania, Australia.

Mounted in album with PAI3938-PAI4072, PAI4074-PAI4076.; Page 121.; Plate No. VIII.

Object Details

ID: PAI4073
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Cadell, Thomas; Strahan, William Russell, John
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1 Feb 1777
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 335 x 247 mm; Plate: 235 x 158 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)