Revisiting COOK’s rEEF scrap yard
Sailing by moonlight in 1770, James Cook’s Endeavour almost sank when she ran aground on a coral reef in the tropics. Centuries later, NIGEL ERSKINE* and a team of archaeologists explore what remains of one of the most significant sites in the nation’s
OF THE many 18th-century European voyages of exploration, James Cook’s expeditions are renowned. The three expeditions he led between 1768 and 1779 changed European knowledge of the world profoundly, filling Pacific charts with hundreds of islands and providing surveys...
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