Chronology

The First Voyage

The Second Voyage

The Third Voyage

Early Life and as a merchant seaman (1728-1755)

1728
Oct. 27 Sun. Born at Marton (N. Riding, Yorkshire), now Cleveland.
Nov. 3 Sun. Baptised at The Parish Church of St. Cuthbert, Marton.

1730-1731
Family moved to nearby Parish of Ormesby.

1732-1733
Family returned to Marton.

1736
Nov.-Dec. Family removed to Aireyholme Farm, Great Ayton.

1737
Goes to Postgate’s School, Great Ayton.

1745
Becomes “shop-boy” to Mr. William Sanderson, grocer and haberdasher at Staithes.

1746
Becomes apprentice to Mr. John Walker, Whitby. Lodges with his master.

1747
Sep. 29 Tue. Servant aboard “Freelove” (collier); Tyne and London.
Dec. 17 Thu. Discharged at Whitby.

1748
Feb. 26 Fri. Servant aboard “Freelove” (collier); Tyne and London.
Apr. 26 Fri. Discharged at Whitby. Works on rigging of new ship “Three Brothers”.
Jun. 14 Tue. Servant aboard “Three Brothers” (horse transport).
Oct. 14 Fri. Returns to Whitby. Sails again, same day, on “Three Brothers” (troop transport) as servant to Liverpool, Dublin and Middleburg (Holland).

1749
Apr. 20 Thu. Returns to Whitby. Sails again, same day, in “Three Brothers”(transport) as Seaman to Norway.
Sep. 26 Tue. Returns to Whitby.
27 Wed. Sails from Whitby as Seaman in “Three Brothers” (transport).
Dec. 8 Fri. Returns to Whitby. Spends Christmas at Ayton.

1750
Feb. 18 Thu. Sails from Whitby as Seaman in “The Mary of Whitby” (transport) to the Baltic(?).
Oct. 8 Mon. Discharged at London. Makes way to Yorkshire. (May possibly have sailed in “The Hopewell” during this time.)

1751
Feb. 19 Tue. Sails from Whitby as Seaman in “Three Brothers” (transport).
Jul. 30 Tue. Returns to Whitby.
31 Wed. Sails from Whitby as Seaman in “Friendship” (collier).
Oct. 28 Mon. Discharged at Whitby.
Nov. 21 Thu. Sails from Whitby as Seaman in “Friendship” (collier).

1752
Jan. 7 Fri. Discharged at Whitby.
Mar. 30 Thu. Sails from Whitby as Mate in “Friendship” (collier)
Nov. 10 Fri. Returns to Whitby.

1753
Feb. 2 Fri. Sails from Whitby as Mate in “Friendship” (collier).

1754
Feb. 4 Mon. Returns to Whitby.
Apr. 2 Tue. Sails from Whitby as Mate in “Friendship” (collier).
Jul. 25 Thu. Returns to Shields.
Aug. 9 Tue. Sails from Whitby as Mate in “Friendship” (collier).
Dec. 18 Wed. Returns to Whitby.

1755
Feb. 15 Sat. Sails from Whitby as Mate in “Friendship” (collier).
Jun. 14 Sat. Discharges himself at London.
17 Tue. Joins Royal Navy at Wapping on H.M.S. Eagle.

Approximate length of voyages
Whitby to Tyne 2 days.
Loading, etc. 7 days.
Tyne to London 7-12 days.
Unloading, etc. 10 days.
London to Tyne 7 days.

Life in the Royal Navy (1755-1767)
1755
Jun. 7 Tue. Volunteered for the Royal Navy at Wapping.

1756
Jan. 22 Thu. Promoted to Boatswain at £4 per month.
Feb. In hospital.
Mar. 13 Sat. Sails in H.M.S. Eagle for Cape Barfleur, Cherbourg Peninsula.
19 Fri. Arrives Cherbourg and off Brittany Coast.
Apr. 4 Sun. Joins British Squadron of 3 ships and 2 cutters.
5 Mon. Takes command of cutter.
6 Tue. Off Morlaix.
6 Thu. Off Tragoz Rocks.
21 Wed. Boards H.M.S. Falmouth to return to Plymouth.
27 Tue. Transfers to H.M.S. St. Albans.
30 Fri. Sails for Ushant.
May 3 Mon. Rejoins H.M.S. Eagle.
20 Thu. In Bay of Biscay. Eagle takes two prize ships. Takes command of one - the Triton - to return to Plymouth.
In Plymouth with the Triton.
Jun. Takes the Triton to London.
Jul. 1 Thu. Rejoins H.M.S. Eagle at Plymouth - refitting.
Aug. 4 Wed. Sails from Plymouth. Convoy work in the Channel and off Ushant.
Nov. Thu. Returns to Plymouth.
Dec. 29 Wed. Sails from Plymouth.

1757
Jan. 4 Tue. Off Isle of Wight. In storm. Returns to Spithead and then Plymouth.
30 Sun. Sails from Plymouth to Bay of Biscay.
Apr. l5 Fri. Returns to Plymouth.
May 25 Wed. Sails from Plymouth.
30 Mon. In action S.W. of Ushant. In company with H.M.S. Medway engages French East Indiaman Duc d’Aquitaine, which is dismasted and towed to Plymouth
Jun. 29 Wed. At Trinity House, Deptford. Passes examination and qualifies as Master.
30 Thu. Discharged from H.M.S. Eagle and becomes Master of frigate, H.M.S. Solebay (Captain Robert Craig).
Jul. Probably at home in Yorkshire.
30 Sat. Joins H.M.S. Solebay at Leith, Firth of Forth.
Aug. 2 Tue. Sails from Leith to Stoneham, Buchan Ness, Copinsay (Orkneys), Fair Isle and Lerwick.
9 Tue. At Lerwick.
19 Fri. At Stromness.
end Returns to Leith.
Sep. 7 Wed. Discharged from H.M.S. Solebay.
Oct. 18 Tue. Appointed master of Ship of the Line, H.M.S. Pembroke (Captain James Simcoe).
27 Thu. Joins H.M.S. Pembroke at Portsmouth.
Dec. 8 Thu. Sails from Portsmouth into Bay of Biscay and Cape Finisterre.

1758
Feb. 9 Thu. Returns to Portsmouth.
22 Wed. Sails from Plymouth with Fleet under Admiral Boscawen for North America, calls at Tenerife, Bermuda.
May 9 Tue. Arrives Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Jun. 7 Wed. Sails for Louisburg, Cape Breton Island.
12 Mon. Arrives Louisburg.
Out at sea because of storms.
Jul. 26 Wed. Louisburg surrenders.
27 Thu. Lands at Kennington Cove. Meets Samuel Holland, engineer with General Wolfe.
28 Fri. Receives instruction from Holland on surveying.
Aug. 3 Thu. At Louisburg.
28 Mon. Sails from Louisburg for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Gaspé.
Sep. Surveys Gaspé Harbour.
Oct. 2 Mon. Returns to Louisburg.
Nov. 14 Tue. Sails for Halifax.
19 Sun. Arrives at Halifax for the winter.

1759
Jan. Works with Holland on charts of the St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and sailing directions for the Cape Breton area.
May 5 Sat. Sails from Halifax for Quebec.
7 Mon. Encounters sea-ice for the first time.
16 Wed. Assists with burial of Captain Simcoe at Anticosti Island. Captain John Wheelock succeeds to HMS Pembroke.
19 Sat. In the St. Lawrence Estuary.
20 Sun. Arrives Barnaby Island.
Jun. 5 Fri. Arrives at The Traverse (Ile d’Orleans), near Quebec.
25 Mon. Navigates through The Traverse.
27 Wed. In the Quebec Basin.
Jul. 7 Sat. Anchors at Port Lewis for blockade of Quebec.
18 Wed. Up river - sounding channels.
Sep. 11 Tue. Laying buoys in channel at Beauport.
18 Tue. Quebec surrenders. May have landed in ship’s boat. Appointed Master of HMS Northumberland (Captain Lord Colville).
23 Sun. Takes up appointment on HMS Northumberland.
Oct. end At Halifax for the winter. Commences surveying Halifax Harbour.

1760
Apr. 22 Tue. Sails for Quebec.
24 Thu. Stuck in ice.
May 12 Mon. In ice-field.
18 Sun. Arrives at Quebec.
Summer Support for military operations in Quebec, Montreal, Ontario area.
Sep. 7 Sun. Canada surrenders.
Oct. 10 Fri. Sails from Quebec.
25 Sat. Arrives at Halifax. HMS Northumberland remains here until August 1762.

1761
HMS Northumberland careened and overhauled. Cook pursues his appointment as Master of the ship, and probably did some surveying.

1762
Aug. 10 Tue. Sails for Placentia, Newfoundland.
Arrives Placentia and sails for St. John’s
Sep. Off Bay Bulls - charting.
13 Mon. Helps transports to land troops north of St. John’s.
19 Sun. Arrives at St. John’s. Makes soundings, and surveys Harbour Grace and Carbonear.
Oct. 7 Thu. Sails from St. John’s for England.
26 Tue. Arrives at Spithead. Cook at work on ship.
Dec. 3 Fri. The Seven Years War ends,
5 Wed. Paid off. Cook quickly presents to the Lords of The Admiralty his draughts and observations made during the war in N. America.
21 Tue. Marries Elizabeth Batts, aged 21, at St. Mary’s Parish Church, Barking, Essex.

1763
Jan. - Mar. In lodgings at Shadwell. Visits the Tower of London to consult with the Ordnance Office, and purchases surveying instruments to the value of £68 11s. 8d.
Apr. 19 Tue. Appointed Surveyor in Newfoundland at 10s.0d. per day.
May 4 Wed. Joins HMS Antelope, as Supernumary, in Plymouth Sound.
15 Sun. Sails for Newfoundland.
Jun. 11 Sat. Arrives Cape Race and Trepassey Harbour.
13 Mon. Joins HMS Tweed to survey St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands.
Jul. 3 Sun. Completes survey of St. Pierre and moves to Langley and Miquelon Isles.
12 Tue. Completes Langley (Petite Miquelon) Island and moves to Grand Miquelon.
25 Mon. Completes Dunne Harbour (now Grand Barachois).
31 Sun. Completes Miquelon. The Islands now handed over to the French.
Aug. Aboard HMS Tweed to Ferryland and St. John’s. Joins HMS Grenville and sails for North Newfoundland. Surveys Quirpon, Noddy Harbour and York Harbour (Labrador Coast).
Sep. end Returns to St. John’s and sails from there in HMS Tweed for home.
Nov. 29 Tue. Arrives Spithead. Sees son, James, born 13th. October, and buys house; No.7, Assembly Row, Stepney: later 88, Mile End Road.

1764
Mar. Corresponds with Hugh Palliser about maps, fishing rights and territorial limits of Newfoundland.
Apr. 18 Wed. Appointed master of HMS Grenville at £4 per month.
May 7 Mon. Sails in HMS Lark from Portsmouth.
Jul. 14 Thu. Joins HMS Grenville at St. John’s.
4 Wed. Leaves St. John’s.
5 Thu. Arrives Carouge Harbour.
14 Sat. At Sacred Bay and Onion Cape (Cap d’Ognon).
21 Sun. At Pistolet Bat.
Aug. 2 Thu. Off Cape Norman.
3 Fri. Goes ashore.
6 Mon. At Noddy Harbour. Exploding powder horn injures right hand.
Sep. 14 Fri. At St. Genevieve Bay.
28 Fri. At St. Margaret Bay, Point Ferrol. Small boat damaged.
Oct. 1 Mon. Sails along N. and E. coast to St. John’s.
14 Sun. Arrives St. John’s.
Nov. 1 Thu. Sails from St. John’s for winter at home.
Dec. 4 Tue. Arrives Cutwater, Plymouth.
12 Wed. At Woolwich. HMS Grenville to be overhauled at Deptford.
14 Fri. At home. Second son, Nathaniel, is born same day.

1765
Apr. 28 Sun. Sails in HMS Grenville from the Downs for Newfoundland.
Jun. 2 Sun. Arrives Great St. Lawrence Harbour, Placentia Bay.
12 Wed. Into Fortune Bay, Bay of Despair, Lawn Bay, Lamaline Islands and Harbour Breton.
Jul. 14 Fri. At Great Garnish.
21 Fri. Grenville’s brig runs ashore.
Sep. 25 Wed. At Ship Cove, overhauls ship.
Oct. 10 Thu. Sails from Ship Cove for St. John’s.
20 Sun. Arrives St. John’s.
Nov. 5 Tue. Sails from St. John’s for England.
Dec. 17 Sun. Arrives Deptford.

1766
Prepares charts and sailing directions for Labrador and Newfoundland for publication. Corresponds with Admiralty about next survey and requirements for it.
Apr. 20 Sun. Sails from Deptford in HMS Grenville for Newfoundland.
May 29 Thu. Off Cape Race.
Jun. 1 Sun. At Bonne Bay.
7 Sat. At Facheux Bay.
17 Tue. Off Cape La Hune, Penguin Islands.
27 Fri. In Cape Cove.
Jul. At Fox Island, Cape Cove and Ramea Islands.
17 Thu. to White Bay.
22 Tue.
23 Wed. Grandy’s Cove, Burgec Islands.
Aug. 5 Tue. Observes eclipse of Sun on Eclipse Island, Burgeo Islands.
In Connoire Bay.
6 Sat. to Tweed’s Harbour (Cinq Cerf Bay).
28 Tue.
Sep. 10 Wed.
to Port Aux Basques, Cape Ray, Codroy Road, Cape Anguille.
23 Tue.
Oct. 20 Mon. La Poile Bay; sails for St. John’s.
Oct. 27 Mon. Arrives St. John’s. (Joseph Banks was here at this time).
Nov. 4 Tue. Sails for England.
23 Sun. Off Beachy Head.

1767
Prepares charts and observations on eclipse for publication. Corresponds with Admiralty about astronomical instruments.
Apr. 1 Wed. Sails in HMS Grenville for Newfoundland.
5 Sun. Involved in collision.
10 Fri. Leaves Woolwich.
May 9 Sat. Off Cape Race.
15 Fri. In Codroy Road.
Surveys in St. George’s Bay (meets Mickmak Indians), Cape St. George, Red Island, Port au Port.
Jun. 5 Fri. At East Bay.
15 Mon. At Fox Island.
29 Mon. In Bay of (Three) Islands. (He called them Pearl, Tweed and Guernsey).
Jul. 7 Tue. At Bonne Bay.
24 Fri. At Ingornachoix Bay, at Old Port au Choix.
Aug. 25 Tue. At Twin Islands.
31 Mon. York Harbour, in Bay of Islands.
Sep. 24 Thu. Leaves Bay of Islands.
Oct. 14 Wed. Arrives St. John’s.
23 Fri. Leaves St. John’s.
Nov. 8 Sun. Off Isle of Wight.
9 Mon. At Deal.
10 Tue. Off The Nore. (Runs aground).
11 Wed. Floats off and anchors off Sheerness.
15 Sun. Arrives at Deptford. Goes home and works on charts and sailing directions during the winter of 1767-1768.

The First Voyage (1768-1771)
All dates are as in Cook’s Journal and are, therefore, Ship’s time.
Note regarding proper names and names of places Cook visited on this and subsequent journeys. Names have often changed since Cook’s explorations. An unbracketed name is the one given by Cook, on first use, and a modern equivalent follows in brackets, if there is one, or a native one still in use. Modern usage will usually be the form for subsequent entries.
1768
May 5 Thu. Attends Council Meeting of the Royal Society.
19 Thu. Attends again and agrees a gratuity of 100 guinees.
25 Wed. Commissioned First Lieutenant to command HMS Bark Endeavour.
26 Fri. Arrives on board and takes command of Endeavour at Deptford.
Jul. 18 Mon. Pilot arrives to take Endeavour to the Downs.
21 Thu. Sails from Deptford for Gallions Reach.
30 Sat. Sails from Gallions Reach to Gravesend.
31 Sun. Sails from Gravesend.
Aug. 3 Wed. Endeavour in the Downs.
7 Sun. Cook joins Endeavour to commence Voyage.
8 Mon. Sails for Plymouth.
14 Sun. Arrives at Plymouth. Endeavour is provisioned. Banks, Solander and party join ship.
25 Thu. Sails from Plymouth into the Channel and Bay of Biscay.
Sep. 4 Sun. Off Sisargas Islands and Cape Finisterre.
12 Mon. Lands at Funchal (Madeira). Alexander Weir, Master’s Mate, carried overboard by buoy rope and drowned.
18 Sun. Off Tenerife (Cape Verde Islands).
Oct. 25 Tue. Crosses the Equator.
28 Fri. 60 miles E. of the Islands of Fernando Novonha (Brazil).
Nov. 8 Tue. Sights coastline of Brazil.
13 Sun. Arrives Rio de Janeiro. Ship is cleaned and repaired. Meets the Viceroy. Difficulties arise over landing. Endeavour has sailed 5,000 miles from Plymouth to Rio.
Dec. 2 Fri. Seaman Peter Flower drowned in the harbour.
5 Mon. Sails from Rio de Janeiro.
7 Wed. Pilot dropped, clears Bay and heads south.

1769
Jan. 11 Wed. Sights Tierra del Fuego.
13 Fri. Enters Straits of Le Maire with difficulty.
14 Sat. Boat goes ashore with Banks and Solander.
15 Sun. Anchors in Bay of Good Success. Cook goes ashore with Banks and Solander and meets natives. Surveys Bay.
21 Sat. Sails from Bay.
25 Wed. Off Cape Horn (3482 miles from Rio). Into the Pacific.
30 Mon. Reaches most southerly point of Voyage - 60°l0’S.
Mar. 26 Sun. Marine William Greenslade lost overboard.
Apr. 4 Tue. Sights land, Lagoon Island (Vahitahi). Has now sailed 5036 miles since Cape Horn. Enters the Tuamotu Archipelago.
5 Wed. Off Thrum Island (Aki Aki), Bougainville’s Isle de Lanciers.
6 Thu. Off Bow Islands (Hao).
7 Fri. Off The Two Groups (Marokau, Ravahere) and Bird Island (Reitoru).
9 Sun. Off Chain Island (Maitea).
10 Mon. Off Osnaburg Island (Maitea).
11 Tue. Sights King George’s Island (Tahiti).
13 Thu. At anchor in Matavai Bay (Tahiti). 559 miles since land sighted.
14 Fri. Goes ashore at Matavai Bay and meets inhabitants.
15 Sat. Goes ashore, decides where to site Fort Venus. Native is shot for attempting to snatch a musket.
17 Mon. Alexander Buchan, artist, dies and is buried at sea.
18 Tue. Commences building Fort Venus.
28 Fri. Queen Oborea (Purea) visits Fort and Endeavour.
May 1 Mon. Observatory set up.
2 Tue. Quadrant set up.
5 Fri. Watches wrestling and entertainment provided by Tuteha.
11 Thu. Purea visits again and becomes frequent visitor until departure.
28 Sun. With Banks and Solander visits Tuteha in S.W. of Island.
Jun. 1 Thu. Sends Lt. Gore, Dr. Monkhouse and Sporing to York Island (Moorea) to observe the Transit.
3 Sat. Observes Transit of Venus with Solander and Green.
18 Sun. Observes Eclipse of Moon.
20 Tue. Eats roasted dog.
26 Mon. Commences circuit of Tahiti with Banks in ship’s pinnace.
Jul. 1 Sat. Returns to Fort Venus (approx. 90 miles). Prepares for sailing.
9 Sun. Clement Webb and Samuel Gibson, marines, desert.
10 Mon. Lt. Hicks brings back the deserters.
13 Thu. Sails north from Matavai Bay.
14 Fri. Off Tethuroa (Tetiaroa), York Island (Moorea/Eimeo) and Saunders Island (Tubuai Manu).
15 Sat. Off Huahine.
16 Sun. Sights Ulieta (Raiatea), Otaha (Tahaa), and Bolabola (Borabora).
17 Mon. Anchors at Owarhe (Fare), Huahine. Goes ashore with Banks, Solander and Monkhouse. Meets Ori, King of the Island and Tupia. Surveys Island.
19 Wed. Gives Ori pewter plaque and medals to commemorate visit.
20 Thu. Sails from Huahine. Arrives and anchors at Opoa Harbour. Raiatea.
21 Fri. Goes ashore. Takes possession of island.
24 Mon. Unable to sail through reef because no wind.
25 Tue. Sails northwards.
26 Wed. Sights Borabora. Off Otaha (Tahaa).
27 Thu. Sights Tubai (Motu-iti). Returns south.
28 Fri. Off Tahaa, Hamene Bay. Sends Banks and Solander ashore.
29 Sat. Banks and Solander return. Sails. Off Borabora. Heads south.
30 Sun. Discovers Meurua (Meupiti). Off Hurepiti Bay, Tahaa.
Aug. 1 Tue. Off Raiatea.
2 Wed. Anchors at Rautoanui Harbour, Raiatea.
3 Thu. Surveys with Banks and Solander to the north.
5 Sat. Surveys with Banks and Solander to the south.
7 Mon. Visits King Opoony (Funi).
8 Tue. Returns to Endeavour.
9 Wed. Sails southwards and leaves Society Islands.
14 Mon. Sights Ohetoroa (Rurutu), Austral Islands.
15 Tue. Continues southwards.
28 Mon. John Reardon/Reading, Boatswain’s Mate, dies after drinking a bottle of rum given him by the Boatswain.
29 Tue. Sights and observes Messier’s Comet. (Seen in Europe, Aug.- May.)
Oct. 7 Sat. Sights New Zealand (Gisborne?) - by Nicholas Young.
8 Sun. Sights Poverty Bay, people and canoe. 3912 miles since 9th. Aug.
9 Mon. Goes ashore with Banks and Solander in the yawl and pinnace. Lands; on banks of R. Turanganui. A native is shot while the pinnace is under attack.
11 Wed. Leaves Poverty Bay.
12 Thu. Off Cape Table. Portland Island.
14 Sat. Off (Napier). Crossing Hawke Bay.
15 Sun. Off Cape Kidnappers.
16 Mon. Off Bare Island, Black Head.
17 Tue. Off Cape Turnagain. Heads back north, closer to the coast.
20 Fri. Off Gable-end Foreland, (Anaura Bay/Tegadoo). Chiefs come aboard.
22 Sun. Puts to sea.
23 Mon. Anchors In Cook’s Cove, Tolaga Bay.
29 Sun. Sails from Tolaga Bay.
31 Tue. Off East Cape, East Island, Hicks Bay, Cape Runaway.
Nov. 1 Wed. Off White Island.
2 Thu. Off (Whale Island/Motuhora). Sights and names, Mount Edgecombe, passes Flat (Plate) Island.
3 Fri. Off the Court of the Aldermen (The Alderman), Castle Island.
4 Sat. Anchors In Mercury (Cook) Bay.
9 Thu. Observes Transit of Mercury with Green. Explores and surveys the Bay and the Oyster River.
15 Wed. Sails from Mercury Bay.
16 Thu. Passes Mercury Islands.
17 Fri. Passes Iles d’Haussez (named by d’Urville) and (Waikawau Bay), sights (Mt. Maungatawhiri).
18 Sat. Passes Port Charles, Great Barrier Island, Channel Island, Cape Colville and enters (Hauraki) Gulf.
19 Sun. Anchors at mouth of the Firth of Thames.
20 Mon. Explores Thames River.
22 Wed. Sails further into Firth and anchors.
24 Fri. Sails from Thames River, passes Little Barrier Island and Point (Cape) Rodney.
25 Sat. Anchors in Bream Bey (Whangerei Harbour), notes Hen and Chickens Islands. Sails, passes Poor Knights Islands.
27 Mon. Passes Cape Brett, into Bay of Islands, Piercy Island, Point Pococke, Cavalle (Cavalli) Islands.
29 Wed. Anchors off Motu Arohia. Lands with Banks and Solander.
Dec. 1 Fri. Lands with Banks and Solander. (Paroa Bay?)
4 Mon. Landro at (Motorua?).
5 Tue. Sails, leaves Bay of Islands. (Note in Beaglehole - Bay of Islands first surveyed by Marion du Fresne, May to July 1772).
9 Sat. Passes Doubtless Bay.
10 Sun. Passes Knockle Point (Cape Karikari?) into (Karikari Bay?). Observes Mount Camel. Crosses (Rangaunu Bay) and Sandy (Great Exhibition) Bay. Sights North Cape.
14 Thu. out to sea, north and north east.
24 Sun. Sights Three Kings’ Island (discovered by Tasman, Jan.1643).
30 Sat. Sights Cape Maria Van Diemen.

1770
Jan. 2 Tue. Sights The Desart (sic) Coast (Ninety Mile Beach).
4 Thu. Sights False Bay (Kaipara Harbour). Gales force Endeavour north.
7 Sun. Turns south.
8 Mon. Off (Hokianga Harbour).
10 Wed. Off Woody Head (Raglan/Whaingaroa Harbour), Gannet Island, (Kawhia Harbour), Albatross Point.
12 Fri. Sights Sugar Loaf Islands.
13 Sat. Sights Mount Egmont and Cape Egmont.
14 Sun. Sights Entry (Kapiti) Island. Enters Queen Charlotte Sound.
16 Tue. Anchors in Ship’s Cove. Goes ashore. Careens Endeavour. (Cook believed this was Tasman’s Murderers’ Bay of 1642, but it was 70 miles away - Beaglehole). He explores, surveys, charts and names features in and around the Sound.
Feb. 7 Wed. Leaves Queen Charlotte Sound.
8 Thu. Off Cape Campbell.
9 Fri. Sights Cape Turnagain. Has Circumnavigated North Island. Turns S.
11 Sun. Off Castle Point, Flat Point.
12 Mon. Off Cape Palliser.
14 Wed. Off (Seaward Kaikouras).
15 Thu. Off Lookers on (Kaikoura Peninsula).
16 Fri. Off Gore Bay (Waimakariri River?)
17 Sat. Off Banks Island (Peninsula). Cook thought this was an island.
23 Fri. Sights (Mt. D’Archaic) and (Mt. Arrowsmith).
25 Sun. Sights Cape Saunders and Saddle Hill (Otago Harbour), and other inlets (Port Chalmers).
Mar. 6 Tue. Off Bench Island (Ruapuke), Molineux’s Harbour (Waikawa).
9 Fri. Off The Traps.
10 Sat. Passes South Cape and (Long Island).
11 Sun. Off Solander Island (Cook has now rounded what is now Stewart Island, which he thought was the mainland). Off South Island.
14 Wed. Off West Cape, Chalky Island and Inlet, Dusky Bay. Point Five Fingers (Five Fingers Peninsula), Doubtful Harbour (Sound).
16 Fri. Off Mistaken Bay (Big Bay).
17 Sat. Off Cascades Point, Open Bay Island (Okuru). Open (Jackson) Bay.
16 Sun. Off Tasman’s landfall (13th. Dec. 1642).
21 Wed. Off Cape Foulwind.
22 Thu. Crosses (Karamea Bight).
23 Fri. Off Rocks Point.
24 Sat. Off Cape Farewell, crosses Blind Bay (Tasman Bay).
26 Mon. Sights Stephen’s Island, Cape Stephens.
27 Tue. Sights Admiralty Islands (Rangitoto, Trio and Chetwode), Point Jackson and (D’Urville) Island. Here he anchors in Admiralty Bay.
31 Sat. Sails west across the Tasman Sea, passing Cape Farewell.
Apr. 19 Thu. Land is sighted. He names the southernmost part. Point Hicks (Cape Everard). Over 1,200 miles from New Zealand to Australia. Sights Ram Head.
20 Fri. Sights Cape Howe.
21 Sat. Sights Mount and Cape Dromedary, Bateman Bay.
22 Sun. Sights Point Upright, the Pigeon House (Mt. ), Brush Island.
24 Tue. Sights Cape St. George.
25 Wed. Sights Long Nose (point), Red Point and (Jervis) Bay.
28 Sat. Attempts to land with Banks, Solander and Tupia. Sees people. Surf too great, returns to Endeavour. (Bulli/Tom Thumb Lagoon).
29 Sun. Anchors in Stingrays Harbour/Botany Bay. Lands (Kurnell). Names Point Solander (S) and Cape Banks (N), Bare Islet.
May 1 Tue. Buries Torby (Forby) Sutherland, seaman, at Point Sutherland.
5 Sat. Lands and explores along coast for 3 or 4 miles.
5 Sun. Names the place Botany Bay after many alternatives considered. Sails and sights another Bay, Port Jackson (Sydney).
7 Mon. Off Broken Bay (Narrabeen Lagoon), Cape Three Ports.
11 Fri. Off Nobby Head (mouth of Hunter River, Newcastle), Point Stephens, Port Stephens, Cabbage Tree, Boondelabah and Little Islands, Black Head (The Broughton Islands) and Cape Hawke.
12 Sat. Sights The Three Brothers (large hills).
13 Sun. Off Smoky Cape.
15 Tue. Off the Solitary Isles, Cape Byron.
16 Wed. Off Danger Point (Tweed River, N. Promontory). Sights Mt. Warning.
17 Thu. Sights Point Lookout, Morton (Moreton) Bay, Cape Morton (now Moreton Isle with R. Brisbane and City behind), Glass House Bay and Glass Houses (hills).
18 Fri. Off Double Island Point (originally Fiddle Head). Crosses Wide Bay.
20 Sun. Off Indian Head (Fraser or Great Sandy Island), Sandy Cape.
21 Mon. Off Break Sea Spit (shoal), crosses Hervey’s (Hervey) Bay.
23 Wed. Anchors at Bustard Bay. Suspends Midshipman John Magra for cutting off the clothes and parts of the ears of Richard Orton, Captain’s clerk. Goes ashore with Banks and Solander.
24 Thu. Leaves Bustard Bay.
25 Fri. Off Cape Capricorn, Capricorn Group of Islands to the East.
26 Sat. Off Keppel Islands, anchors in Keppel Bay.
28 Mon. Sails. Off Cape Manyfold (Manifold), off Cape Townshend, The Two Brothers (Flat and Peaked Islets), Townshend Island. Approaches Northumberland Islands and begins passage within Great Barrier Reef. Crosses Shoalwater Bay. Anchors near (Donovan Shoal, Broad Sound Channel). Sails.
29 Tue. Anchors in Broad Sound. Lands.
30 Wed. Lands again. Sights Quail Island, enters Thirsty Sound in ship’s boat.
31 Thu. Sails. Off Peir (Pier) Head.
Jun. 1 Fri. Anchors in north of Broad Sound. Sails. Sights Cape Palmerston, Bay of Inlets (name now gone).
2 Sat. Off Slade Point, Cape Hillsborough, Cumberland Islands.
3 Sun. Anchors, sails. Off Cape Conway and crosses Repulse Bay.
4 Mon. Off Whitsunday Island in Whitsunday Passage. Off Cape Gloucester, Holburn (Holborne) Island, Edgcumbe Bay.
5 Tue. Off Cape Upstart, Cape Bowling Green.
6 Wed. Crosses Cleveland Bay (Townsville), passes Cape Cleveland, Magnetical Head (Island).
7 Thu. In Halifax Bay, off Palm Islands.
8 Fri. Sends Lt. Hicks, Banks and Solander ashore on Palm Island, sights Point Hillick (Hinchinbrook Island), Iron Head, Cape Sandwich, Family Islands, Dunk Isle. Crosses Rockingham Bay.
9 Sat. Off Frankland Islands, Fitzroy Island, Cape Grafton.
10 Sun. Anchors in Mission Bay. Goes ashore with Banks and Solander, sights Green Island. Sails, crosses Trinity Bay, passes Cape Tribulation.
11 Mon. Sights Hope Islands. Ship runs aground on Endeavour Reef (coral). Jettisons stores, guns and equipment to lighten ship.
12 Tue. Ship hauled and floated off reef, flooding fast, attempt to stop leak.
13 Wed. Anchors and sails.
14 Thu. Passes Weary Bay, anchors, sails, anchors again.
17 Sun. Eventually runs ship ashore for repairs.
18 Mon. Floats off and moors in Cook Harbour/River. Lands and prepares to repair Endeavour.
23 Sat. Hunting party sights kangaroo. During ensuing days expeditions are sent inland. Specimens are collected and many sketches made.
29 Fri. Cook and Green observe “emersion” of satellite of Jupiter. Eventually accurate longitude of Endeavour River is calculated.
Jul. 14 Sat. Lt. Gore shoots a kangaroo.
17 Tue. Observes satellite of Jupiter again.
Aug. 4 Sat. Warps Endeavour out of river and sails. Sights Cape Bedford.
5 Mon. Passes Turtle Reef.
10 Fri. Sights Low Wooded Isle, South Direction, North Direction and Lizard Islands and Two Isles. Cook thinks Endeavour is through the Reef. Passes Cape Flattery. Still within Reef.
11 Sat. Anchors and lands at Point Lookout. Sights Howick Islands.
12 Sun. Visits and stays overnight on Lizard Island. Looks for passage through Reef.
13 Mon. Leaves Island. Lands on Eagle Island.
14 Tue. Through (Cook) Passage. Finally clears the Reef and sails north.
16 Thu. Almost driven aground on Reef.
17 Fri. Anchors within Reef, having entered through Providential Channel. Sights Cape Weymouth and Bay.
18 Sat. Sails.
19 Sun. Anchors. Sights Forbes Islands, Bolt Head (mainland), Cape Grenville, Shelburne Bay, Orfordness, Temple Bay, Sir Charles Hardy’s Isles and Cockburn’s Isles (Home Islands = Gore, Orton, Hicks, Perry, Harvey and Clerke).
20 Mon. Sights Bird Islands (Cockburn Islands), Halfway Island, East Islets.
21 Tue. Off Bushy Island. Sights Cape York (northernmost point of Continent), Newcastle Bay and York Isles.
22 Wed. Anchors. Lands with Banks and Solander and party on Possession Island and takes possession of the whole Eastern Coast of New Holland in the name of King George III, naming it New South Wales. Sails, and enters Endeavour Straits, passes Cape Cornwall and Prince of Wales Island and Wallice (Wallis’) Island. Sets course westward.
23 Thu. Passes Rothesay Banks, sights Booby Island.
24 Fri. Anchors. Loses anchor.
25 Sat. Recovers anchor. Sails. Sights Cook Reef.
26 Sun. Anchors near Cook Shoal. Sails.
29 Wed. Off New Guinea (Habeeke Island) and (Frederick Hendrik Island).
31 Fri. Off (False Cape).
Sep. 3 Mon. Anchors and lands at Cook’s Bay. Sails and heads for Java.
5 Wed. Sights Karang and Enoe (Aru Islands).
6 Thu. Off Tanimbar Islands.
11 Tue. Off Timor.
16 Sun. Between Rotte/Roti and Seman Islands.
17 Mon. Sights Savu Island. Lt. Gore lands.
18 Tue. Anchors at Savu.
19 Wed. Meets Governor and King. Goes ashore.
21 Fri. Sails from Savu.
Oct. 1 Mon. Sights Java Head. Princes Island and Krakatoa. Into Sunda Strait.
2 Tue. Off Anger Point, Thwart-the-Way Island, Bantam (St.Nicholas) Pt.
4 Thu. Anchors off Pulo Morock.
11 Thu. Anchors at Batavia after anchoring and sailing some 13 times during the passage from Java Head. Begins negotiations with the Dutch authorities to repair and supply Endeavour. Endeavour is emptied, careened and refitted.
Nov. 7 Wed. (or 5th.?). Mr. Monkhouse, surgeon, dies. Malaria and dysentery is rampant in Batavia.
6 Sat. Sails and anchors in Batavia Roads.
26 Wed. Sails from Batavia Roads. 7 men have died during stay in Batavia (Mr. Monkhouse; John Reynolds, Mr. Green’s servant;Tupia and his servant Tarheto; and three seamen).
27 Thu. Off Edam Island, Duffins Island.

1771
Jan. 1 Tue. Anchors off Sumatra shore. Sails.
6 Sun. Anchors off Princes Island. Provisions the ship, etc.
16 Wed. Sails from Princes Island, clears Sunda Strait, heads for Cape.
24 Thu. Corporal John Truslove, marine, dies.
25 Fri. Herman Sporing, Swedish naturalist, dies.
26 Sun. Sydney Parkinson, artist, and John Ravenhill, sailmaker, die.
29 Tue. Charles Green, astronomer, dies.
30 Wed. Samuel Moody and Francis Haite, carpenters, die.
31 Thu. John Thompson, cook, Benjamin Jordan, carpenter’s mate, James Nicholson and Archibald Wolfe, seamen, die.
Feb. 2 Sat. Daniel Roberts. gunner’s servant, dies.
3 Sun. John Thurman, sailmaker’s assistant, dies.
4 Mon. John Bootie, midshipman, and John Gathrey, Boatswain, die.
6 Wed. Jonathan Monkhouse, midshipman, dies.
12 Tue. John Satterley, carpenter, dies.
14 Thu. Alexander Lindsey, seaman, dies.
15 Fri. Daniel Preston, marine, dies.
21 Thu. Alexander Simpson, seaman, dies.
27 Wed. Henry Jeffs, Manoel Pereira, Peter Morgan and seamen, die.
Mar. 5 Tue. Sights African coast.
12 Tue. Off Cape Agulhas, rounds South Africa.
13 Wed. Abreast Cape of Good Hope.
14 Thu. Anchors in Table Bay.
16 Sat. Moors ship at Cape Town. 4973 miles from Java Head.
Apr. 15 Mon. After overhauling Endeavour, sails from the Cape.
16 Tue. Robert Molineaux, Master, dies.
29 Mon. Crosses Greenwich Meridian. Thus completes circumnavigation of Earth in westerly direction.
May 1 Wed. Anchors at Jamestown, St. Helena.
5 Sun. Sails from St. Helena Road with HMS Portland and 12 Indiamen.
10 Fri. Sights Ascension Island, passes log books and papers to HMS Portland, which arrives home three days earlier than Endeavour.
15 Wed. Observes eclipse of Sun.
26 Sun. Lt. Zachary Hicks, Second Lieutenant, dies.
Jul. 10 Wed. Sights Scilly Isles and Land’s End. 7406 miles from Cape Town.
11 Tue. Off The Lizard.
12 Fri. Off Portland Bill, Beachy Head and Dover.
13 Sat. Anchors in The Downs. Cook lands at Deal.
16 Tue. Endeavour in Gallion’s Reach, and is eventually docked at Woolwich
17 Wed. Cook goes to report to the Admiralty, and returns to his home at Mile End. Commences Reports to Admiralty and Royal Society.
Aug. 11 Sun. Receives news of his promotion to Commander from Banks and the Earl of Sandwich.
14 Wed. Cook is presented by Sandwich to King George III at St. James’s. Palace and receives his Commission, personally, from the King. Returns to Mile End.
17 Sat. Writes letter to John Walker of Whitby, his former employer.

The Second Voyage (1771-1776)
1771
Sep. 13 Fri. Writes to John Walker - describing Pacific Islands, considering a Second Voyage.
Sep. - Nov. Investigates vessels for voyage. Admiralty puchases Marquis of Granby (£4151) and Marquis of Rockingham (£2103).
27 Wed. Marquis of Granby re-named Drake. Rockingham re-named Raleigh.
28 Thu. Cook named as Commander of Drake and Tobias Furneaux , Commander of Raleigh.
30 Sat. Cook receives Admiralty Orders and begins to prepare ships.
Dec. 10 Tue. Cook writes to Joseph Cockfield from “Next Door to Curtis’s Wine Vaults Mile end” (sic).
14 Sat. Applies for three weeks leave. Travels to Yorkshire with wife, Elizabeth. Visits Ayton, Whitby, etc.
25 Wed. By now Admiralty has re-named Drake, Resolution, and Raleigh becomes Adventure.

1772
Jan. 3 Fri. Cook writes to Captain Hammond in Hull.
Feb. 6 Tue. Work finished on Resolution at Deptford. Cook writes long letter to Earl of Sandwich with Map of Southern Hemisphere, outlines his plans for Second Voyage.
7 Wed. Resolution hauled from dry dock to wet dock.
14 Wed. Resolution into River. Provisioning of ship commenced.
Feb. - Mar. Cook has discussions with Banks about scientific staff and accomodation for the Voyage.
Apr. 9 Thu. Sails from Deptford to Woolwich. Held up by winds.
22 Wed. Sails from Woolwich.
24 Fri. Adventure joins Resolution.
25 Sat. Cook’s misgivings about seaworthiness of Resolution become serious as ordnance, powder and final stores are loaded.
29 Wed. Receives Marines (Lt. Edgcumbe + 20) aboard.
May 2 Sat. Banks entertains Sandwich and French Ambassador, Comte de Guines aboard ship.
7 Thu. Midshipman Sandford drowned after falling overboard from launch.
10 Sun. Resolution sails. Cook on leave.
14 Thu. Resolution reaches The Nore. Reported un-seaworthy.
18 Mon. Anchors at Sheerness for reconstruction work.
20 Wed. Cook arrives at Sheerness. Work in progress.
21 Thu. Cook writes to Admiralty, proposes shortening masts.
24 Sun. Banks and Solander visit Resolution. Banks does not approve the new alterations; by the end of the month has angrily, withdrawn.
30 Sat. Sir Hugh Palliser, Comptroller of the Navy, inspects Resolution.
Jun. Selection of crew and scientists finally settled. (William Wales and William Bayly, astronomers, William Hodges, artist, John Reinhold and George Forster, scientists).
10 Wed. Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, visits ship.
15 Mon. Cook visits Resolution to inspect work. which is apparently satisfactory. Writes report to Admiralty.
21 Sun. Farewell to family. Joins Resolution with Wales at Sheerness.
22 Mon. Sails.
25 Thu. Sails from The Nore. Anchors in Margate Roads.
26 Fri. In The Downs.
27 Sat. Sails from the Downs for Plymouth.
Jul. 2 Thu. Sandwich and Palliser aboard. Cook reports favourably. Cook receives Admiralty Instructions and scientific instruments.
3 Fri. Arrives Plymouth.
13 Mon. Resolution and Adventure sail from Plymouth. (From hereon Cook’s dates, as in Journal, are used. )
20 Mon. Off Cape Finisterre.
22 Wed. Off Sisargas Islands.
29 Wed. Anchors in Funchal Road, Madeira.
30 Thu. Goes ashore. Provisions ships. Makes observations.
Aug. 2 Sun. Sails from Madeira.
4 Tue. Off Palma, Canary Isles.
5 Wed. Off Ferro (Faro), (Hierro).
9 Sun. Off Bonavista.
10 Mon. Off Mayo.
13 Thu. Anchors at Porto Prayo, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands. Provisions ships and makes observations.
15 Sat. Sails from Porto Prayo and heads south.
20 Thu. Henry Smock, Carpenter’s mate, lost overboard while at work.
Sep. 7 Mon. Crosses Equator.
16 Wed. Off Ascension Island.
Oct. 12 Mon. Observes eclipse of Moon.
29 Fri. Sights African coast.
30 Sat. Sights Table Mountain and anchors in Table Bay. Lands. Provisions ships and makes observations.
Nov. 23 Mon. Sails from Cape. Heads south.
Dec. 10 Thu. Sights iceberg to the west at about 51°S. from now on frequently sights them.
14 Mon. In “immense field of Ice”.
18 Fri. Heads north after reaching 55°l6’S.
21 Mon. Heads south again.

1773
Jan. 1 Fri. Still in ice at 60°21’S. Farthest south since 30th. January 1769.
3 Sun. Sights the moon for second time since leaving the Cape. Decides that Bouvet’s Cape Circumcision (New Year’s Day, 1739) did not exist. Conclusively prove this, later, during Voyage. Concludes that what Bouvet had “sighted was only “Mountains of Ice”.
9 Sat. At 61°36’S. sends out three boats. They collect about 15 tons of fresh water from loose ice. (See Hodges drawing.)
12 Tue. Collects ice again and Forster shoots an albatross.
17 Sun. Crosses Antarctic Circle to 66°36’S. First known mariner to do so. Ice thickening. Heads NE.
Feb. 8 Mon. Loses contact with Adventure in thick fog. Kerguelen Island, although unsighted, was not too far away NE. Now heads SE.
13 Sat. Heard Island, unsighted, some 40 miles NE.
16 Tue. Into ice again.
24 Wed. Reaches 61°52’S. Because of ice and weather decides to head NE in the direction of New Zealand. (Beaglehole: “if Cook had managed to cross the Antarctic Circle... he would probably have found himself ashore, some miles inland, on that part of the Continent that is now Australian Antarctic Territory”, Journal II, page 321.) For about three weeks now, Cook’s course, sailing eastwards was to be roughly parallel to the Antarctic Coast from the Davis Sea to Commonwealth Bay - Queen Mary Land, Wilkes Land, Terre Adelie and George V Land.
Mar. 17 Wed. Having followed this course, at about 60’S., finally, he decides to head for New Zealand.
25 Thu. Sights New Zealand. 4 months since last seeing land at the Cape.
26 Fri. Off Chalky Inlet. Enters Dusky Bay.
27 Sat. Anchors at Anchor Point, Anchor Island. (Cook in Log writes “after 117 days at sea”: Beaglehole, correctly computes 122 days.) Cook and Pickersgill look for better anchorage. Then moves ship to Pickersgill Harbour.
28 Sun. Hauls Resolution into creek for maintenance. Officers report seeing natives in Cascade Cove. They approach ship.
29 Mon. Goes ashore, finds huts, leaves medals, glass and beads.
30 Tue. Botanical expeditions commenced, begins to set up Mr. Wales’ observatory.
Apr. 1 Thu. Spruce beer brewed. (From Rimu tree and Manuka “tea” shrub). Forge set up, sail repairs begin.
2 Fri. Visit to Cascade Cove, Goose Cove, Luncheon Cove, Supper Cove.
6 Tue. Visits Resolution Island, Duck Cove, Indian Island, meets native family.
7 Wed. Visits native family.
12 Mon. Takes Mr. Hodges to view large Cascade for painting. Surveying at Anchor Island and Luncheon Cove.
13 Tue. Visits other islands in Bay.
15 Thu. Surveys NW shore of Bay with Forsters. Camps overnight.
16 Fri. Continues survey.
17 Sat. Returns to ship.
19 Mon. Visited by chief and daughter. They come aboard and gifts are exchanged. Sets off with the Forsters, Hodges and Lt. Cooper to investigate head of Bay.
20 Tue. Passes Long Island and Cooper’s Island. Lands and meets natives.
21 Wed. Returns to ship after surveying islands.
22 Thu. Seal hunting.
23 Fri. Pickersgill and Gilbert to Cascade Cove to climb mountain. Cook goes fishing in Cove. Leaves last five Cape of Good Hope geese at Goose Cove (hence name).
26 Mon. Hauls Resolution from creek.
27 Tue. Off with Pickersgill to examine outlet to sea.
28 Wed. Returns to ship.
30 Fri. Sails. Passes between Indian Isle and Long Island, Two Sisters and West Point. Anchors at Station Isle. Sails again.
May 1 Sat. Anchors again near Station Isle. Sails and anchors on Detention Cove, Long Island.
5 Wed. Boats haul Resolution and manages to anchor in cove at Passage Point at bead of channel to sea (now Acheron Passage).
6 Thu. Boats haul Resolution through Passage. Anchors in Occasional Cove. Cook ill with “cold”.
8 Sat. Pickersgill examines Wetjacket Arm.
9 Sun. Cook investigates inlet to the east, Sunday Cove, Harbour Isles, Beach Harbour, Apparent Island (S. shore) and First, Second and Third Coves (N. shore) - all later surveyed by Vancouver in 1791.
11 Tue. Sails NE to open sea, passing Entry Island, Gilbert Islands, Disappointment Cove and Breaksea Island.
12 Wed. Heads for Queen Charlotte Sound, sailing along coast. Off Doubtful Harbour and Cape Stephens.
17 Mon. Off Cape Farewell and Stephen’s Isle.
18 Tue. Off Point Jackson and sights Adventure in Ship Cove. Anchors in Ship Cove. Furneaux comes aboard and reports he has been here since 7th. April, having anchored in Adventure Bay, Tasmania on 11th. March. Cook reads Furneaux’s Journal.
20 Thu. Commences “gardening” and investigations.
24 Mon. Visited by natives who enquire about Tupiea (1st. Voyage).
29 Sat. Explains “farming” to natives.
Jun. 2 Wed. Visits east side of Sound to put ashore goats.
3 Thu. Visited by natives, then others less friendly. Visits Motoura.
7 Mon. Puts to sea with Adventure. Off The Brothers, Cape Koamaru.
8 Tue. Off Cape Palliser and heads SE into Pacific. Finds that Arnold’s chronometer would not work, “this is the second of this gentleman’s Watches that hath failed”
Jul. 7 Wed. Wales goes aboard Adventure to compare chronometers.
13 Tue. Heads North.
29 Thu. Sends boat to Adventure. Finds that the cook has died and about 20 crew have scurvy and “Flux”. Sends across another cook and strongly urges use of beer and sauerkraut to combat sickness.
Aug. 2 Mon. Passes close to Pitcairn Island but without sighting it.
11 Wed. Sights Resolution Island = Tauere on 1st. Voyage. Entering Tuamotu Archipelago.
12 Thu. Off Tekokoto (Doubtful) Island, Maurutea (Furneaux) Island.
13 Fri. Off Motutunga (Stephen’s Isle > Sandwich Island > Hervey’s Isle).
14 Sat. Off Anaa (Chain Island on 1st. Voyage).
15 Sun. Sights Osnaburg Island (Mehetia) and Otaheite (Tahiti). Approaching Society Islands.
17 Tue. Resolution almost on reef, Tautira Basin, Vaitepiha Bay, hauled off, in emergency, two miles. Loses bower anchor. Anchors in Cook Anchorage, Oaitipeha/Vaitepiha Bay. Chiefs come aboard.
18 Wed. Sends Gilbert with cutter to recover anchor, successfully. Entertains, then is forced to eject thieves.
20 Fri. Recovers stolen musket. Marine Isaac Taylor dies.
23 Mon. Meets Chief Ta’atauraura who entertains him.
24 Tue. Sails.
26 Thu. Anchors in Matavai Bay. Lands.
27 Fri. Visited by Chief Otoo/Tu who entertains Cook with feast and dramatics. Wales and Bayly set up observatory (at Venus Point, same place as 1769).
28 Sat. Entertainments again.
29 Sun. With Furneaux visits Otoo again. Sees “Dramatick Heave or Play”.
30 Mon. After a disturbance would-be deserters returned to ship.
31 Tue. Visits Otoo who has retreated inland after the disorder. Presents exchanged and Otoo returns.
Sep. 1 Wed. Takes Tahitian, Porio, aboard and sails for Huahine.
2 Thu. Sights Huahine, anchors at Owharre (Faro).
See an extract of Cook's Journal for this period.
3 Fri. Goes ashore, meets natives, exchanges hatchets, etc., for food.
4 Sat. Goes ashore, visits Chief Ori who shows him the pewter inscription Cook had left in July 1769.
5 Sun. Chief visits Resolution with hogs and fruit.
6 Mon. Goes ashore after Sparrman had been stripped of everything except trousers while botanising. Remonstrated with Ori. Parts on friendly terms.
7 Tue. Gives Chief an inscribed (date) copper plate and medals. Adventure takes on Omai. Sails for Ulietea.
8 Wed. Anchors in Ohamaneno (Haamanino) Harbour.
9 Thu. Visits Chief Orio.
10 Fri. Visits chief again. Poetua, chief’s daughter, dances for them.
11 Sat. Chief visits ship.
12 Sun. Visits Chief - entertained, dancing etc.
14 Tue. Goes ashore, feasted and entertained with play. Observes that “little else falls to the share of the common people”.
15 Wed. Ori has gone! Unfounded fears over Pickersgill’s foraging party at Otaha. Ori returns.
16 Thu. Porio leaves ship.
17 Fri. Farewell to Orio. Resolution sails with some 230 hogs aboard and Adventure, 150. Heads west to find Tasman’s Amsterdam Island (1643; Tongatapu).
18 Sat. Sights Maurua (Maupiti) - leaving Society islands.
23 Thu. Sights Hervey Islands (Manuae and Auoto), having first named them Sandwich Islands.
Oct. 2 Sat. Sights Middleberg (Eua) and Kalau. Anchors in English Road, Eua. Sights Amsterdam Island to NW. Now in Tongan or Friendly Isles. Goes ashore and is entertained with food and music.
3 Sun. After going ashore sails tor Amsterdam Island. Anchors in Van Diemen’s Road.
4 Mon. Goes ashore with Furneaux, Forster. Meets Chiet Ataongo. Visits faitoka - burial place. Forster botanises.
5 Tue. Goes ashore again with Hodges.
6 Wed. Ashore.
8 Fri. Sails, heads for New Zealand.
9 Sat. Sights Pilstart Island (Ata) = Tasman’s “High Arrow Tail Tropic Bird Island = Hooge pijlsteerten eijlandt”. (19 Jan. 1643)
21 Thu. Sights Table Cape, New Zealand.
22 Fri. Off the Shambles and Portland Island, Cape Kidnappers, Black Head. Natives come aboard and exchange goods. Off Cape Turnagain.
23 Sat. Off Cape Turnagain.
24 Sun. Off Cape Pailiser.
25 Mon. In severe gales.
26 Tue. Still off Cape Palliser.
27 Wed. Off Cape Campbell, Cape Palliser.
28 Thu. Off Cape Campbell.
30 Sat. Loses Adventure.
31 Sun. Off Snowey Mountains (Kaikoura Range.
Nov. 2 Tue. Sighting Cape Campbell again, eventually manages to enter the Straits (Cook Straits), off Cloudy Esy, Cape Teerawhitte.
3 Wed. Anchors off, what is now, Port Nicholson/Wellington. (Capt. Herd, 1826. in N.Z. Co. ship Rosanna). Then heads for Ship Cove. Anchors, Adventure is not there.
4 Thu. Prepares to re-condition ship. Botanising, visits from and to natives, stores.
23 Tue. Finds evidence of cannibalism.
25 Thu. Sails, but is forced to anchor between Motuara and Long Island. Leaves message in bottle tor Furneaux or any other captain, indicating his future route. SaiIs SE passing Cape Palliser.
Dec. 7 Tue. Reckons to be at the Antipodes to London. Drinks the health of his friends there.
8 Wed. Concludes “no land under the Meridian of New Zealand but what must lie far to the South of 60°S.”.
12 Sun. Sights iceberg.
15 Wed. Encounters loose ice in considerable volume.
20 Mon. Crosses Antarctic Circle at approx 148°W.
22 Wed. At Latitude 67°27’S. (Journal), 67°31’S. (Account).
24 Fri. Decides to head north because of ice.

1774
Jan. 1 Sat. Heading just west of north.
11 Tue. 200 leagues (600 miles) from 1769 track to Tahiti. Begins to head south again. Crew is upset, thought Resolution was heading home.
20 Thu. Sights iceberg “like Cupala (sic) of St. Paul’s... 200ft. high”.
26 Wed. Crosses Antarctic Circle at 109°31’W.
30 Sun. At latitude 71°10’S. and 106°54’W longitude, farthest South. Both Vancouver on the bowsprit and Sparrman in his cabin claimed the “personal” farthest South! Decides to head north. Only in 1823 did James Weddell reach 74°l5’S. JC Beaglehole says that no one in this Pacific sector of the Antarctic has yet penetrated to the Continent by sea.
Feb. 3 Thu. Recrosses the Antarctic Circle going north.
6 Sun. Concludes no land mass/continent in Pacific at these latitudes and decides to keep northwards in search of Juan Fernandez’ Continent (1563) at latitude 38°, then Easter Island/Davis Land and Bougainville’s “Great Cyclades”.
17 Thu. Crosses Endeavour’s track of 1769.
22 Tue. At 37°52’S. and l0l°10’W., as trying to get in the latitude of Easter Island, concludes no Juan Fernandez Continent here but it must have been “a small isle”.
23 Wed. Cook is taken ill with “bilious cholic” and is confined to bed. Mr. Forster prescribes his favourite dog for diet as no other fresh meet aboard. The resultant stew proves effective. JC Beaglehole says it was an infection of the gall bladder and paralysis of bowel.
Mar. 9 Wed. On westerly course searching for Easter Island.
11 Fri. Sights Easter Island (Davis Land) and sails SW along south coast.
13 Sun. Sights the “Monuments or Idols” mentioned by Roggeveen (1722), also inhabitants.
14 Mon. Anchors off Hanga-roa Bay and Punta Rua. Canoe comes to visit ship. Goes ashore, Hodges sketches. Secures better anchorage.
15 Tue. Sends Pickersgill and Edgcumbe ashore to investigate.
16 Wed. They return and Pickersgill gives full report, including dialect and names of statues. Cruises up and down western shore.
See an extract of Cook's Journal for this period.
17 Thu. Sails north, heading for the Marquesas (Mendana 1595).
Apr. 7 Thu. Sights Hood’s Island (Fatu Huku), St. Pedro (Motare). La Dominica (Hiva Oa), St. Christina (Tahuata).
8 Fri. Sails along southern coast of Hiva Oa looking for anchorage. Anchors in Resolution (formerly Madre de Dios) Bay (Vaitahu Bay). Canoes arrive, gifts are exchanged. Natives killed after an iron stanchion is stolen.
9 Sat. Goes ashore, gifts exchanged, food obtained.
10 Sun. Goes ashore to south end of Bay and visits house of dead man. Gifts exchanged.
11 Mon. Goes ashore to south, again. Finds trade becoming expensive because of lavish gifts by his “gentlemen”.
12 Tue. Sails towards St. Dominica. No anchorage visible. Heads SW away from islands.
13 Wed. Sights last of the five main islands, Magdalena (Fatu Hiva).
17 Sun. Sights Coral Island (Byron, 1765), Ti-oo-kea (Takaroa).
18 Mon. Passes outside atoll, sends Gilbert to investigate, finds no anchorage, sights George’s Island (Byron), (Takapoto). Heads SW.
19 Tue. Sights coral atolls, Apataki, Toau and Kaukura.
20 Wed. Passes along N. coast of Kaukura, sights Arutua. Names them Palliser’s Isles. Heads for Tahiti.
21 Thu. Sights Tahiti.
22 Fri. Anchors in Matavai Bay. Wants Wales to check chronometers.
23 Sat. Visited by natives with provisions.
24 Sun. Visited by Chief Otoo.
25 Mon. Changing plans, decides to overhaul ship.
26 Tue. Goes ashore to visit Oparre (Pare) district. Sees great naval force - 300 great double canoes, 170 smaller and about 7,000 men. War force to go against Eimeo (Moorea) which had a rebellious chief. Returns to ship.
27 Wed. Visits Towha and Otoo at Oparee. Brings men back to dinner aboard ship.
28 Thu. Forster and Sparrman off on expedition.
29 Fri. Visited by chiefs. Water cask stolen. Thief apprehended and brought on board, then taken ashore by chiefs. Cook asks them to spare him. Marines are drilled for exhibition. Forster returns with plants.
30 Sat. Sees canoe-men exercising.
May 1 Sun. Provisions arrive.
2 Mon. Visits Oparre.
3 Tue. Finds ship’s biscuit is decaying.
5 Thu. Visited by Chief. Forster and Sparrman off into country.
6 Fri. Forster returns.
7 Sat. Visited by whole Royal Family.
8 Sun. Marine Richard Baldy, sentry ashore, has musket stolen. Goes ashore to retrieve it, sends out warning and goes back aboard. Obtains hostages/canoes, lets them go and musket is returned.
9 Mon. Visits Oparee and returns.
10 Tue. Gives fireworks display.
11 Wed. Begins to load equipment from shore.
12 Thu. Visited by Queen Obarea, Otoo. Fireworks again.
14 Sat. Visits Oparee. Sees fighting display. Farewells, returns and Resolution sails. Discovers that John Marra, gunner’s mate, had tried to desert. Launches cutter, recovers him. He is put in irons. Sails, heads for Husheine.
15 Sun. Anchors at Owharre (Faro) Harbour.
16 Mon. Visited by Ori. Gifts exchanged. Ernest Scholient, Forster’s servant, is attacked and insulted.
17 Tue. Goes ashore to complain. Attends Council meeting. Advised to kill absent attackers!
18 Wed. Shows Ori the guns firing.
20 Fri. Shooting party attacked. Goes ashore to protest and returns.
21 Sat. Goes ashore for more information about attackers. Returns to ship and then lands with 48 men as a demonstration. Peace restored, returns to ship.
23 Mon. Puts to sea and arrives at Raiatea (Ulietea), Haamanino Harbour. Visited by Chief Orio (Oreo).
25 Wed. Warps ship into cove. Goes ashore, exchanges presents. Sees and is embraced by old, blood-covered women - who are lamenting and lacerating themselves with shark’s teeth.
26 Thu. Goes ashore. Visits dogs’ burial place. He is surprised “because few Dogs die a natural death, being generally kill’d and eat”.
27 Fri. Orio comes aboard with family. Dinner. Goes ashore, sees a play representing woman in labour.
28 Sat. Forster botanising. Cook spends day with Chief.
29 Sun. Items stolen from boats. Cook goes ashore to complain. All recovered except pinnace’s iron tiller. Everything finally settled, articles found which were not known to have been stolen. Watches further dramatic entertainment including performance by strolling players. Orios’s daughter. Poetua entertains.
30 Mon. Visits estate in north of island. Watches ceremony of hog-killing and roasting.
Jun. 2 Thu. Fireworks. False rumours of Furneaux’s arrival at Huaheine.
4 Sat. Visit by Orio. Farewells made. Resolution sails. Heads west.
5 Sun. Off Maupiti, Bora Bora. Releases John Marra from custody (l4 May).
15 Thu. Sights Palmerston Island (6 small islands}. No anchorage.
21 Tue. Sights Niue. Cook called it Savage Island because of the hostility of the islanders.
22 Wed. Lands at Tuapa with two boats, then south along coast, lands at Opaahi, attacked, withdraws, attacked again, returns to ship and sails.
25 Sat. Approaching Tongan Group. Sights and passes Haapai, Kotu and reefs. Wary of the reefs he passes Telekitonga.
28 Sun. Sights Mango, Tonumeia and Nomuka (Rotterdam).
27 Mon. Anchors and lands at Annamocka = Nomuka (Tasman’s Rotterdam of 1643). Canoes arrive, goes ashore.
28 Tue. Goes ashore, surgeon has gun stolen. Inhabitants show hostility. Man is shot. Surgeon attends to him. Peace is restored and gifts are exchanged.
29 Wed. Ashore again, obtains names of 20 islands in group and sights, among them, a volcanic island to the west (Tofua).
30 Fri. Off Tofua and Kao (3, 380 ft.). Tofua is covered by cloud. Passes between the islands.
Jul. 2 Sat. Sights Vatoa (Fiji Group). Only sighting made of the Fiji Group.
3 Sun. Sights small island, puts boat ashore. No anchorage. Names it Turtle Island.
4 Mon. Off Vuata Vatoa Reef. Sends boat for turtles. None found.
17 Sun. Approaching New Hebrides - Bougainville’s “Great Cyclades”. Sights Aurora Island (Bougainville, 1768) (Maewo).
18 Mon. Rounds north of Maewo in gale.
19 Tue. Off Isle of Lepers (Omba). Passes between Maewo and Omba in gale.
20 Wed. Finds no anchorage at Maewo, crosses Patteson Passage towards Pentecost Isle (Raga).
21 Thu. Passes to west of Pentecost and sights Ambrim, Paama and Epi.
22 Fri. Approaches Mallicollo (Malekula). Anchors in Port Sandwich (Sasun Say). Visited by canoes. Shot at with arrows. Lands, faced by “4 or 500 men arm’d with Bows and Arrows, Clubs and Spears”. Peace made, gifts exchanged.
23 Sat. Goes ashore. Visits house. Walks around harbour, returns to ship and sails.
24 Sun. Passes Maskelyne Islands, off Epi and Mai.
25 Mon. Towards Shepherd Isles, off Makura. Mataso, Monument Rock (Wot).
26 Tue. Off Hinchinbrook (Nguna), Montagu (Emau) and Sandwich (Efate) Islands. Heads SE.
27 Wed. Sights Eromanga.
29 Fri. Off Eromanga.
30 Sat. Sights Tana/Tanna (Ipari).
Aug. 1 Mon. Off north tip of Eromanga.
2 Tue. Sails part way down west coast and returns.
3 Wed. Sails down east coast. Puts out boat for anchorage.
4 Thu. Anchors at Traitors’ Head (Polenia Bay). Goes ashore. Gifts. Fired at with arrows, shot fired back, returns to ship, sails. Passes Cook Bay.
5 Fri. Heads for Tanna, sights volcanoes, sends boat for anchorage and anchors at Port Resolution. Sights Erronan (Futuna).
6 Sat. Goes ashore, threatened, makes friends with Paowang and visits his house over next few days.
7 Sun. Volcano erupts-Mt. Yasur. Begins to provision ship, obtain wood.
16 Tue. Walks to other side of island, sights Annatom (Aneityum).
19 Fri. Native is shot by marine, William Wedgeborough, later punished.
20 Sat. Sails, heads east towards Erronan (Futuna).
21 Sun. Off Immer (Aniwa).
22 Mon. Heads back around S. tip of Tanna.
23 Tue. Off W. coast of Sandwich Isle (Efate), heading NW towards and passing Malekula, Rock Point.
24 Wed. Through Bougainville Passage, past St. Bartholomew Isle (Malo), sails up E. coast of Espiritu Santo, sights Cape Quiros and Sakau Island.
25 Thu. Into Bay of St. Philip and St. James (Quiros, 1606) and Port of Vera Cruz.
See an extract of Cook's Journal for this period.
26 Fri. Tacks into Bay.
27 Sat. Standing off, sends Gilbert and Cooper ashore in boat, they land near river (= Quiros’ R. Jordan). Rounds Cape Cumberland.
29 Mon. Heads down west coast of Espiritu Santo, tacking to and fro.
31 Wed. Off Cape Lisburne - heads SW.
Sep. 4 Sun. Sights Cape Colnett (New Caledonia).
5 Mon. Enters reef (Amoss Passage) between Cook Reef and Balade Reef, anchors off Observatory Isle (Pudiu), visited by inhabitants.
5 Tue. Goes ashore with armed boats, rows along coast, returns to ship. Visited by natives, meets Chief, Teeabooma. Wales and Pickersgill land on Isle, Cook goes to help. Observatory set up for eclipse of Sun.
7 Wed. Eclipse, cloudy at first, observations made. Returns to ship, goes ashore again and returns. Simon Monk, ship’s butcher, dies after fall down fore-hatchway previous night.
8 Thu. Goes ashore. Excursion to west. The Forsters and Cook are ill with eating poisoned fish, liver and roe (Toadfish).
9 Fri. Exchanges presents with Teeabooma but still indisposed.
10 Sat. Forster ashore botanising.
12 Mon. Cutter is damaged when Gilbert and Pickersgill are returning from a visit to the north-west of island. Repairs made.
13 Tue. Takes possession of island in name of King George III, naming it New Caledonia. Sails back through reef and heads NW. along coast, outside Cook Reef, passes Great False Passage.
14 Wed. Sights Belep Islands, still sailing NW. along reef.
15 Thu. Off Ongambua Island and Passage at extreme NW. tip of island and can see no more land stretching to NW. Of f Sandy Isle, decides to turn round and return SE.
18 Sun. Off Observatory Island, Amoss Passage.
21 Wed. Off Hercourt Isles, Cape Baye and Ugué Bay.
22 Thu. Sights Cape Coronation.
23 Fri. Sights Queen Charlotte’s Foreland and Cape Queen Charlotte.
25 Sun. Sights Nuare Islet and Isle of Pines.
28 Wed. Round Isle of Pines, in shoals and islets.
29 Thu. In difficulty amid breakers. Eventually anchors.
30 Fri. Carpenter goes ashore to fell trees - “spruce pine” - (Araucaria columnaris/Cook Pine).
Oct. 1 Sat. Heading SE.
10 Mon. Sights Norfolk Island.
11 Tue. Goes ashore, notes pines and flax plants. Returns to ship and continues to SE.
17 Mon. Sights Mount Egmont, New Zealand.
18 Tue. Off Stephens Isle, anchors in Ship Cove. Begins to refurbish ship. Bottle left for Adventure has gone!
22 Sat. Goes with botanists to visit parts of the Sound.
24 Mon. Canoes approach, meets inhabitants, gifts exchanged, returns.
28 Fri. New masts, rigging and caulking proceeding well so goes ashore.
Nov. 4 Fri. Goes to Long Island to look for hogs previously left behind.
5 Sat. Goes in pinnace up Sound. Discovers (Tory) Channel, proves to be another passage into Cook Strait from Queen Charlotte Sound. Finds large native settlement, returns to ship.
6 Sun. Returns to Long Island for sow, fails to find her. Learns that Adventure had been in Cove, stayed 10/20 days, and had been gone for ten months.
10 Thu. Out of Cove, anchors in Sound. Goes ashore, observes women make “Dutch Warming Pan” to sit upon. Sails, passes Two Brothers and Cape Campbell.
11 Fri. Off Snowy Mts., Cape Palliser and heads east to cross Pacific at high latitudes towards Cape Horn.
26 Sat. Deciding no land to be found in these latitudes, Cook decides to head for western entrance of Magellan Straits.
27 Sun. Resolution has sailed 183 miles in 24 hours - a record!
Dec. 17 Sat. Sights Cape Deseado (Magellan) (Cape Pillar), Desolation Island. Now heads SE. along west coast of Tierra del Fuego. Writes “now I have done with the Southern Pacific Ocean, and flatter myself that no one will think that I have left it unexplor’d”
18 Sun. Passes Landfall Island, Cape Gloucester on Charles Island (Grafton Islands), Cape Noir (Noir Island), The Tower Rocks, across Bay of St. Barbara.
19 Mon. Off Cape Desolation (Basket Island), Desolate Bay, London Isles, Camden Isles, Gilbert Islands, Londonderry Isles, Cook Bay, York Minster (Waterman Island) - this 800 ft. high feature reminded Cook of his native county’s well known building.
20 Tue. Off Christmas Sound.
21 Wed. Anchors in Adventure Cove. Prepares to provision ship. Wales sets up observatory.
22 Thu. Clerke and Pickersgill go ashore, Cook goes with botanists. Examines Burnt Island, sees Hoste Island. Marine William Wedgeborough disappears, probably overboard, last seen going to the head, “a little in liquor” (See 19 Aug. 1774).
23 Fri. Off in pinnace, Shag Island, Port Clerke (large harbour).
24 Sat. In pinnace again, Goose Island, canoes visit ship.
25 Sun. Exchanges gifts with natives, Roast goose, etc., for Christmas.
26 Mon. Visited by canoes again.
27 Tue. Names anchorage Christmas Sound.
28 Wed. Sails past Cape Nativity, Ildefonso Isles to south, Duff Bay, sights Leading Hill on Hind Island, Rous Sound, off Nassau Bay, False Cape Horn (Hardy Peninsula).
29 Thu. Sights Cape Horn, crosses Nassau Bay and passing Hermit Island and Hermite Island rounds Cape Horn and enters the South Atlantic. Passing Misstaken Cape (Cape Deceit), Deceit Island he heads NE. for the Le Maire Strait and Staten Island.
30 Fri. Off Success Bay (1769). Sends Pickersgill ashore, meets natives. No sign of Adventure, leaves card, returns. Into Strait, passing Cape St. Bartholomew.
31 Sat. Sights Staten Island, New Year Islands, Observatory Island. Anchors and goes ashore.

1775
Jan. 1 Sun. Sends Gilbert towards island for good anchorage, goes ashore himself. Gilbert returns with news of harbour which Cook names New Year Harbour. Sights Gull Isles.
3 Tue. Sails, passes Port Cook inlet, St. John Harbour, rounds Cape St. John and heads SE.
14 Sat. Sights ice island - it is South Georgia.
16 Mon. Sights Willis’s Island (Willis Islands), and main island of S. Georgia. Passes through Stewart Strait, off Bird Island, names Cape North and sails along N. coast past Welcome Isles, Cape Buller and Bay of Isles.
17 Tue. Off Possession Bay. Lands at three different places and takes possession of the “Isle of Georgia”. Observes many birds but no quadrupeds. Sails. Passes Cape Saunders, Cumberland Bay.
13 Wed. Passes Cape George, Royal Bay, Cape Charlotte, Sandwich Bay. Sights Cooper Isle and Bay.
20 Fri. Off (Filchner Rocks and Cape Vahsel), passes between Cooper Isle and Cooper Bay, sights, along SW. coast, Cape Disappointment, Green Islets and Pickersgill Isle. Observes at Union Point land first sighted on 16 Jan., therefore S. Georgia not a continent but an island (116 by 20 miles). Heads SE.
24 Tue. Circuits Clerke’s Rocks, continues SE. and S.
28 Sat. Among ice islands.
31 Tue. Sights South Sandwich Isles, Freezeland Rocks (Freezeland, Wilson and Grindle), Freezeland Peak, Cape Bristol (Bristol Isle). In Forster’s Bay (Passage). Names land “Southern Thule” - now Thule, Cook and Bellingshausen Islands. Heads North.
Feb. 1 Wed. Passes Cape Montague (Montague Island).
2 Thu. Off Saunders Island.
3 Fri. Off Candlemas Isles (Candlemas and Vindication). Heads East.
6 Mon. Now in open sea, concludes no continent here. Calls the islands, Sandwich Land (Snowland was a first thought!), but conjectures that there must be a tract of land near the Pole which was the source of the ice.
15 Wed. Heads NE. to get into the latitude of “Cape Circumcision” (Bouvet, 1739), which Cook had already assumed to be an island not part of a Southern Continent.
17 Fri. Heads East, although only 3° off Bouvet Island (rediscovered 1898 by Capt. Krech in “Valdivia” - German Deep Sea Exploration).
21 Tue. Crosses his outward track of 15 Dec. 1772, thus circumnavigating the Earth for the second time. Heads for the Cape of Good Hope.
Mar. 16 Thu. Sights ship flying the Dutch colours - so, searches ship and collects together all Log Books, Journals, Charts and Drawings and sealed them until the Lords of The Admiralty gave permission for public use.
17 Fri. Sights land.
18 Sat. Sends aboard Dutch ship for news. Learns Adventure was at the Cape a year before. Sights an English ship - “True Briton” - puts letter on board for Secretary of the Admiralty, because ship not calling at Cape and will arrive home before “Resolution”.
21 Tue. Sights Table Mountain.
22 Wed. Anchors in Table Bay. Sends copy of Journal, etc., by “Ceres” to the Admiralty.
23 Thu. Commences repairs, provisioning. Talks to Capt. Julien Crozet, hears of activities of du Fresne, Kerguelen and Surville.
Apr. 27 Thu. Sails from the Cape.
May 15 Mon. Arrives St. Helena. Meets the Governor, John Skottowe, son of Thomas Skottowe of Great Ayton, who had sent Cook to school. Dines, explores and investigates around Jamestown, etc.
21 Sun. Sails from St. Helena.
28 Sun. Arrives at Ascension, anchors in Cross Bay.
31 Wed. Leaves Ascension, looking for St. Matthew Isle which was non-existant, but recorded on 15th Century Portuguese maps. Not finding the island. he decides to fix the longitude of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.
Jun. 9 Fri. Off Fernando de Noronha, fixes latitude and longitude.
11 Sun. Crosses the Equator.
Jul. 13 Thu. Sights Fayal, Pico, The Azores.
14 Fri. Anchors at Fayal. Investigates the Island.
19 Wed. Sails, passes St. George’s Isle, Tercera and Gratiosa.
29 Sat. Sights land near Plymouth.
30 Sun. Anchors at Spithead, lands at Portsmouth and sets off for London with Wales, Hodges and the Forsters. Resolution goes to Gallion’s Reach.
31 Mon. Cook at the Admiralty.
Aug. 9 Wed. At St. James’s Palace, promoted Post-Captain and appointed to H.M.S. Kent.
10 Thu. Appointment is cancelled. Cook is now appointed to Greenwich Hospital as Fourth Captain. at £230 per year plus quarters. Fire and light and 1s 2d daily, table money.
19 Sat. Writes to John Walker.
Sep. 6 Wed. Writes from Mile End a letter to Latouche-Tréville. a French naval officer (translated into French), about Pacific Exploration.
14 Thu. Writes to John Walker, from Mile End, a long letter giving Walker a full account of the Voyage.
18 Mon. Cook writes to Admiralty Secretary about unofficial, anonymous publication of account of Voyage.

1776
Feb. 10 Sat. Cook writes, again, to Latouche-Tréville.
24 Sat. Cook writes to John Harrison, attorney. at Guisborough about the alleged snuggling activities of his brother-in-law, James Fleck.
26 Mon. Cook writes to Robert Sayer, chart publisher in Fleet St. concerning “The North American Pilot”.
Mar. 17 Thu. Cook is elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Apr. 2 Tue. James Boswell, Dr. Johnson’s biographer, meets Cook and Mrs. Cook at dinner at Sir John Pringle’s house (President, Royal Society). He dines with Cook, Solander and Banks about two weeks later.
22 Mon. Boswell visits Cook at Mile End and takes tea with him in the garden. About now, Cook begins to sit for his portrait by Nathaniel Dance.

The Third Voyage (1776-1780)
1776
Apr. - Jun. Preparation for publication of Journal of Second Voyage and for Third Voyage. Correspondence connected with this and for discovery of North West Passage.
Jun. 8 Sat. The Earl of Sandwich, Sir Hugh Palliser and other Admiralty officials visit Resolution.
15 Sat. Resolution sails, from Long Reach where provisioned.
22 Sat. Last letter from Mile End Road to Commodore Wilson at Great Ayton.
24 Mon. Goes aboard Resolution with Omai at the Nore.
25 Tue. Sails for The Downs.
26 Wed. Anchors in The Downs off Deal.
27 Thu. Sails for Plymouth.
30 Sun. Anchors at Plymouth.
Jul. 8 Mon. Receives Instructions.
12 Fri. Sails from Plymouth.
14 Sun. Off The Lizard.
16 Tue. Off the Scilly Isles.
17 Wed. Off Ushant.
22 Mon. Off Cape Ortegal.
24 Wed. Passed Cape Finisterre.
30 Tue. Observes Eclipse of Moon.
Aug. 1 Thu. Anchors at Tenerife, takes on supplies.
4 Sun. Sails from Tenerife after watching Jean-Charles Borda and Don Joseph Varela testing chronometers.
10 Sat. Off Boa Vista.
12 Mon. Off Cape Verde Islands.
Sep. 1 Sun. Crosses the Equator.
8 Sun. Towards the coast of Brazil.
17 Thu. Sights the Cape of Good Hope.
18 Fri. Lands. Visits the Governor. Repairs ship.
Nov. 10 Sun. Discovery (Captain Clerke) arrives from Plymouth. Repairs. Provisions Ships and dismantles Observatory used during stay.
Dec. 2 Mon. Sails and heads SE.
12 Thu. Sights Marion and Prince Edward Islands.
15 Sun. Passes south of Crozet islands. Heads for Kerguelen.
24 Tue. Sights Isle de Croy (Kerguelen).
25 Wed. Lands at Baie de l’Oiseau (Christmas Harbour).
27 Fri. Reads inscription left by French in 1773, and writes new inscription on the other side.
29 Sun. Sails along north coast charting and naming places. Anchors in Baie de Baleiniers (Port Palliser).
30 Mon. Sails round Cape Digby and Cape Sandwich and heads west and south for New Zealand.

1777
Jan. 24 Fri. Sights Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania). Rounds Tasman Head.
26 Sun. Lands at Adventure Bay.
Feb. 10 Mon. Sights New Zealand (Rocks Point).
12 Wed. Lands at Queen Charlotte’s Sound (Ship’s Cove).
13 Thu. Sets up Observatory. Waters and partly provisions ship.
15 Sat. Visits fortified village.
16 Sun. Lands again - collects grass. celery and scurvy grass.
25 Tue. Sails from The Sound.
27 Thu. Off Cape Palliser.
Mar. 29 Sat. Sights Mangaia - most southerly of Lower Cook Islands.
31 Mon. Sights Atiu.
Apr. 4 Fri. Off Takutea.
6 Sun. Off Manuae (Hervey Island). Passes south of Aitutaki.
13 Sun. Off Palmerston Islands. Stands offshore to replenish supplies.
24 Thu. Off Niue (Savage Island).
28 Mon. Sights Nomuka (Anamocka). Anchors and commences to provision ship.
May 6 Tue. Visited by great Chief (Finow/Finau).
14 Wed. Sails and heads north towards Kotu and Tofua.
17 Sat. Lands at Lifuka.
26 Mon. Sails south and anchors off Uoleva.
29 Thu. Sails for Nomuka.
Jun. 5 Thu. Anchors at Nomuka.
8 Sun. Sails for Tongatapu (Amsterdam Island).
10 Tue. Anchors at Nukualofa Harbour. Meets King of Tonga.
Jul. 5 Sat. Observes eclipse of Sun. Ceremonies, feasts. supplies.
10 Thu. Sails for Eua (Middelburgh).
12 Sat. Anchors at English Roads.
17 Thu. Sails east for Tahiti.
Aug. 9 Sat. Off Tubuai/Tupua (Austral Islands).
12 Tue. Off, and anchors at, Vaitepiha Bay.
23 Sat. Sails for, and anchors at, Matavai Bay.
Sep. 29 Mon. Sails for Moorea (Eimeo).
30 Tue. Anchors at Tareu/Papetaai, Moorea.
Oct. 11 Sat. Sails for Fare, Huahine.
12 Sun. Lands at Fare and installs Omai ashore, builds house and plantation.
Nov. 2 Sun. Sails for Raiatea.
3 Mon. Anchors at Haamanino (also in July 1768 and May 1774). Sets up Observatory.
Dec. 8 Mon. Stands off Borabora but stands off and heads MS.
22 Mon. Crosses the Equator.
24 Wed. Sights Christmas Island. Anchors in atoll and collects turtles.
30 Tue. Observes eclipse of Sun (Cook Islet/Eclipse Island).

1778
Jan. 2 Fri. Sails to NE.
18 Sun. Sights Oahu and Kauai (Hawaii Group).
19 Mon. Sights Niihau.
20 Tue. Anchors and lands at Waimea Bay, Kaiai.
23 Fri. Moves fron Waimea and wind carries Resolution towards Niihau.
25 Sun. Thomas Roberts, Quartermaster, dies of “dropsy”.
29 Thu. Lands at Niihau.
Feb. 2 Mon. Sails NE towards “New Albion” (Drake 1579), and calls the group he was leaving the Sandwich Islands.
Mar. 7 Sat. Sights coast of Oregon - Cape Foulweather.
11 Wed. Sights Cape Perpetua, Cape Arago (Cape Gregory).
22 Sun. Off Cape Flattery, fails to see Straits of Juan de Fuca, thus passing to the south and east of Vancouver Island.
29 Sun. Off Cape Cook (Woody Point).
30 Mon. Anchors in Resolution (Ship) Cove, Hope Bay (Nootka Sound) commences overhauling ships. Meets Nootka people and explores Sound, and names it King George’s Sound. Names Bligh Island and Clerke Peninsula (Resolution Cove).
Apr. 26 Sun. Sails from Nootka Sound and heads north along coast of Vancouver Island.
May 1 Fri. Off Baranof and Kruzof Islands and Sitka Sound.
2 Sat. Off Cape Edgecombe and sights Mount Edgecombe and “Bay of Islands” - Salisbury Sound.
3 Sun. Off Salisbury Sound, Cross Sound and Cape, Cape Fairweather.
4 Mon. Sights Mount Fairweather (15, 300 ft.).
6 Wed. Sights Mount St. Elias (18, 000 ft.) - sighted by Bering in 1741 - and Berings Bay.
10 Sun. Sights Cape Suckling. Supposes that Bering had landed near here.
11 Mon. Lands at Kayak and Wingham Island/s - Keyes Island and names Comptrollers Bay - now Controller Bay (as named later by Vancouver). Sails on.
12 Tue. Off Cape Hinchingbrook and Island. Anchors at English Bay. Enters Prince William (Sandwich Sound). All this time since landing at Nootka Sound artefacts have been collected and the native dialects etc., noted.
13 Wed. Sails, passes Orca Bay.
14 Thu. Anchors in Snug Corner Bay. Sights Valdez Narrows.
18 Mon. Sails past Montague Island and Straits, and leaves Prince William Sound, passes small Green Islands group (now Ingot, Entrance, Sphinx and Eleanor).
21 Thu. Off Cape Elizabeth (birthday of 3rd daughter of George III). Now Chugach Islands.
24 Sun. Off Cape St. Hermogenes, Marmot Island. Sights Afognak and Kodiak Islands.
25 Mon. Off Barren Islands. Sights Cape Douglas and is entering Cook Inlet (1792). Sights Smoky Point and Bay - now Shelikof Strait.
26 Tue. Sights Mount St. Augustine and Cape Bede. Near Kamishak Bay.
27 Wed. Anchors off Anchor Point.
29 Fri. Sails past Kalgin (Doubtful) Island.
Jun. 1 Mon. Off Fire Island, near Anchorage and sets off down the Inlet thinking that there may be a channel to the NE - possible NE Passage. Passes Turnagain River. Anchors at Point Possession (Kenai Peninsula).
2 Tue. Sails down Inlet.
6 Sat. Passes Shuyak Island and into open sea.
7 Sun. Off Cape Whitsunday (Pillar Cape) and Marmot Bay (Afognak, Whale, Kodiak and Spruce Islands).
8 Mon. Off Cape Greville and Two Headed Island (Point).
12 Fri. Off Cape St. Barnabes.
14 Sun. Off Trinity Island, Cape Trinity (SW Kodiak Island). Now sailing along the Pacific Coast of Alaska Peninsula. Sees first Eskimos paddling a kayak.
15 Mon. Off Foggy Cape and Island (Chirikov Island - 1794).
17 Wed. Off Shumagin Islands.
19 Fri. Off Unga Cape.
20 Sat. Off Sanak Islands (Halibut Island). Sights Unimak Island and Shishaldin Volcano (9,387 ft.), and has now arrived at the beginning of the Aleutian Islands.
25 Thu. Sails into and turns north through Unimak Pass. Passes Krenitsin Islands (Ugamak, Tigalda and Avatanak).
27 Sat. Anchors off Cape Sedanka (Egg Inlet), Unalga.
27 Sat. Sights Unalaska Island.
28 Sun. Sails into Unalga Pass. Anchors in English Bay. (Samagunda) and meets the Aleuts.
Jul. 2 Thu. Sights Unimak Island. Now sailing NE along N.E. coast of Alaska Peninsula.
9 Thu. Sights Cape Chichagof and enters River Bristol - probably now the Kvichak River and Bay or the Naknek River.
10 Fri. Off Cape Constantine.
13 Mon. Anchors off Round Island, Walrus lslands.
14 Tue. Off Calm Point, Hagemeister Island.
15 Wed. Anchors Off Crooked and High Islands (Walrus Islands).
16 Thu. Off Cape Peirce and Cape Newenham. Takes possession of the land.
18 Sat. In Kuskokwim Bay. In shoals. Off Cape Avinof.
23 Thu. Heads west and north into open Bering Sea.
29 Wed. Off St. Matthew Island. Point Upright (now Cape) and Bird Island.
Aug. 3 Mon. Mr. Anderson, Surgeon. dies. Sights Anderson Island - St. Lawrence Island (Bering Aug. 1728).
4 Tue. Sights mainland of Alaska (America).
5 Wed. Lands on Sledge Island, near Point Rodney.
8 Sat. Off Cape Prince of Wales - most westerly point of the American continent. Sights Fairway Rock and Ratmanova and Ignaluk, Diomede Islands. At anchor now in the Bering Strait.
9 Sun. Sails North and West across strait and sights coast of Asia.
10 Mon. Anchors in St. Lawrence Bay. Sights Cape Krigugnon and Cape Nunyagmo. Meets the Chukchi people. Sights Mt. Vkhodnaya/Tirtova (Siberia).
11 Tue. Sails and heads NE along N.W. coast of Alaska.
14 Fri. Off Point Mulgrave - probably Cape Kruzenstern or Cape Seppings. Crosses the Arctic circle.
18 Tue. At 7O° 44´ N. the farthest north of the Voyage. In ice, off Icy Cape. Continues return along coast.
21 Fri. Off Cape Lisburne to the SW and heads west amid ice.
29 Sat. Sights Asian coast. Cape Shmidta (Cape North by King). Heads SE along the Siberian coast. Sights Ekiatap (lagoon), Kozhevnikova and Vebera (Severnaya Bay).
30 Sun. Off Kolyuchin Island (Burney’s Island).
Sep. 1 Tue. Off Ididlya Islet, Capes Ikugur and Volnisti and Cape Serdze Kamen and along the Chukotski Peninsula.
2 Wed. Off East Cape (Cape Dezhneva). Most easterly point of Siberia.
3 Thu. Off St. Lawrence Bay. Heads for Alaskan coast.
4 Fri. Off entrance to Senyavina Strait and south coast of Arakamchechen and Ittigran Islands, off Nuneangan Island. Off Cape Chukotski.
7 Mon. Off Sledge Island, into Norton Sound.
8 Tue. Off Cape Darby and into Norton Bay.
11 Fri. Off Cape Denbigh.
12 Sat. Off Bessborough Island. Anchors. Meets inhabitants.
17 Thu. Sails along coast of Sound, in shoals.
18 Fri. Off Stuarts Island, Cape Stephens, Egg Islet. Beaulah Island and Point Shallow Water.
20 Sun. Off St. Laurence Island (Clerke's Island) = Three Punuk Islands.
23 Wed. Off St. Matthew Island (Gore's Island - Cook), Bird Island (King). Passes Cape Upright. Pinnacle Island. Heads SE for Samgunuda.
Oct. 2 Fri. Into Unalaska Bay.
3 Sat. Anchors at Samganunuda.
14 Wed. Meets, at Unalaska, Russian fur traders and Gerassim Gregoriev Ismailov, Russian factor. Sees charts and obtains information about Kamchatka, the Sea of Okhotsk and Kurile Islands. Ismailov gives him a letter for the Governor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk.
21 Wed. Sends letter to Admiralty per Ismailov.
23 Fri. Jacob Ivanovich, master of sloop carrying letter, visits Cook.
26 Mon. Sails for Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to winter there.
29 Thu. Sights Umnak and Bogoslof Islet.
Nov. 26 Thu. Sights Maui.
Dec. 1 Tue. Off Hawaii.
4 Fri. Observes eclipse of moon.
7 Mon. Sights Mauna Kea (13,825 ft.) and Mauna Loa (13,675 ft.)
19 Sat. Off Cape Kumukahi - eastern point of Hawaii.

1779
Jan. 5 Tue. Passes south of Island, Kalae. Frequently visited by canoes with supplies.
17 Sun. Anchors at Kealakekua Bay. Provisions ships and meets inhabitants who appear friendly and seem to reverence him.
Feb. 1 Mon. William Watman, seaman, dies of a stroke and is buried near a chief's burial place.
4 Thu. Ships sail north to investigate islands.
6 Sat. Off Kawaihae Bay.
8 Mon. Finds that the mast is sprung (it had been replaced in Nootka Sound) and decides to head back to Kealakekua Bay to replace it.
11 Wed. Anchors in Bay.
14 Sun. Cook along with Marines, Corporal Thomas, Privates Hinks, Allen and Fatchett are killed ashore near village of Kaawaloa, about 9 a.m. There had been ill feeling, menaces and theft - particularly Discovery's cutter - and Cook had gone ashore to settle the matter. Confusion, musket fire and mis-interpreted signals led to the tragedy and the resulting contemporary confusion of accounts and paintings of the scene. Clerke assumes command of Resolution and the voyage and Gore takes over the Discovery.
20 Sat. Clerke demands and obtains Cook's remains from the natives. The disfigured head, unrecognisable, severed hands - one identified by distinctive scar between thumb and forefinger of right hand caused by explosion of powder horn, 6th. August 1764, Noddy Harbour, Newfoundland. Possible jawbone and feet later returned with shoes and damaged musket.
21 Sun. Cook's remains are placed in coffin and he is buried at sea in the late afternoon.
22 Mon. Sails for Kamchatka.
24 Wed. Off Kahoolawe, Males Bay, sights Kekaa Point (W. tip of Maui).
25 Thu. Sights Lanai, Cape Kaea.
26 Fri. Off Molokai and Oahu.
27 Sat. Goes ashore at Waimea Bay.
28 Sun. Sights Kauai.
Mar. 1 Mon. Goes ashore again, trouble. Remains until 8 March.
8 Mon. Off Cape Kawaihoa (Niihau). Goes ashore. Trading & supplies.
15 Mon. Sails, finally, for Kamchatka.
Apr. 23 Tue. Kamchatka sighted.
29 Mon. Anchors in Avacha Bay, about 7½ miles from Petropavlovsk. Several anchorages are then tried in Bay. Clerke decides to send letters to Major Behm, Governor. Gore, King and Webber sent by sledge. Also take Cook's Journal etc.; which arrive at the Admiralty, London, seven months later. Vessels provisioned etc. Visited by Russian soldiers, merchants and local priest. Observatory erected
May 7 Fri. Above party, Russian merchants, Germans set off for Bolsherstsk where they are well received.
16 Sun. Alexander McIntosh, carpenter's mate, dies of a flux. Buried at sea
21 Fri. Party returns to mouth of R. Avachka, accompanied by Major Behm.
26 Wed. Major Behm returns. Ice begins to clear. Carpentry repairs.
Jun. 11 Fri. Ships begin leaving Bay.
15 Tue. Mt. Avachinskaya erupting - ships covered in dust.
18 Fri. Passes Cape Shipunski.
19 Sat. Ships finally clear Bay and head NE along Kamchatka coast.
20 Sun. Off Cape Kronotski and Gulf of Kamtchka.
24 Thu. Off Cape Olyutorski.
28 Mon. Off (probably) Anastasii Bay, Vitgenshteina Point, Natalii Bay and Glubokaya Bay.
29 Tue. Off Cape Navarin (probably) - (St. Thadeus Nos.).
30 Wed. Off Gulf of Anadir, Capes Faddeys and Chukotski.
Jul. 4 Sun. Off St. Lawrence Island and Cape Chaplina, heading for Bering Strait
5 Mon. Off Diomede Islands.
6 Tue. Off Cape Destineva ( East Cape - Cook), Cape Mountain (America). Crosses Arctic Circle - into ice. Weather bad.
10 Sat. Decides to head south.
18 Sun. However, reaches 70° 33' N. Begins return. No NE Passage!
26 Mon. Off Cape Serdtse Kamen.
30 Fri. Off Diomede Islands. Through Bering Strait.
Aug. 21 Sat. Kamchatka coast sighted.
22 Sun. Captain Clarke dies of consumption, after long illness.
24 Tue. Into Avacha Bay.
25 Wed. Gore takes command of Resolution and Voyage. King - Discovery. Observatory erected. Repairs commenced.
29 Sun. Clerke buried ashore, in accordance with his wishes, in the cemetery at Petropavlovsk, with due ceremony.
Sep. 3 Fri. Visit by Evan Sind, Russian ensign. Ships gather supplies, visits by Russian officers
22 Wed. Visit by Captain Smiloff, new Governor.
26 Sun. Freemasons of ships hold lodge at Russian barracks.
27 Mon. Further Masonic meeting.
30 Thu. Clerke's escutcheon fixed at Petropvalovsk Church.
Oct. 9 Sat. Ships sail from Avatcha Bay.
16 Wed. Sight two Kurile Islands - Shimushiru and Paramushiru.
26 Tue. Sight coast of Japan.
27 Wed. Sights, possibly, Yano Shima Group. Encounter Japanese ships.
Nov. 1 Mon. Sight Mt. Fujiyama.
15 Mon. Sight Kito Iwo, Iwojina and Minamo Iwo. (Peaked Island, Sulphur Island and Saddle Island).
24 Wed. Off Formosa.
30 Tue. Sight Lema Islands - approaches to Canton, (and River). Near Macao and Hong Kong.
Dec. 1 Wed. Anchors in Roads near Macao.

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Jan. 13 Thu. Sail from Macao.
20 Thu. Off Pulau Condore (Kondor Island).
28 Fri. In Straits of Banca - Selat Bangka - between Borneo and Sumatra.
Feb. 12 Sat. At anchor, Princes Island, Straits of Sunda.
19 Sat. Sailed for the Cape.
Apr. 12 Wed. In False Bay, (Simonstown), Resolution’s rudder repaired.
May 9 Tue. Sailed.
Aug. 9 Wed. Unable to enter Channel because of gales. Heads north off west coast of Ireland.
21 Mon. Off Western Isles of Scotland - first land sighted for over 314 months
22 Tue. Into Stromness Harbour (Orkneys). Bad weather.
Sep. 20 Wed. Sails from Stromness. John Davis, Quartermaster, died at sea.
22 Fri. Sergeant Samuel Gilbert, marine, dies at sea.
30 Sat. At anchor at Yarmouth Roads.
Oct. 7 Sat. Discovery at Woolwich, Resolution at Deptford. Crews paid off. Gore and King become Post-Captains. Gore takes up Captain's Berth at Greenwich, vacated by Cook. Dies there, 10 Aug. 1796. Burney and Williamson become master and commander.