Scarce c.19th map of Hawaii with an inset of: Ile de Oahou Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands on 19 January 1778, sighting the coast and anchoring in Waimea Bay and naming them the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich. … Read Full Description
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Scarce c.19th map of Hawaii with an inset of: Ile de Oahou
Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands on 19 January 1778, sighting the coast and anchoring in Waimea Bay and naming them the Sandwich Islands after the Earl of Sandwich. He then departed in search of a north west passage but returned to Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii) on 17 January 1779. His ships sailed north again on 4 February 1779 only to return to anchor in the same bay with a damaged foremast a week later. On the 11th Feb they spent two days removing the mast and taking it on shore and from that time a number of incidents occurred that would escalate in Cooks death.
From: D’Urville, D. Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde. Résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magelan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver, d Entrecasteaux. Paris.
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 1771.
Hill, J. The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego 1974 : 505.
Sabin, J. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time. New York. (1936) 1967 : 21211.
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National Library Australia: Bib ID 2251505
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS DSM/Q980/14A2
State Library New South Wales: RARELT ; 910.8 D89
National Library New Zealand: P q910.4 DUM 1834-1835
Museums of History NSW / Caroline Simpson: Record number: 27372
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842)
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was a French explorer and naval officer. Dumont d’Urville sailed from Toulon on 22 April 1826, towards the Pacific Ocean in his first voyage in the Astrolabe, for a circumnavigation of the world that was to lasted nearly three years. The expedition returned to Marseille on 25 March 1829. The Astrolabe was originally named Coquille and used for Louis Isidore Duperrey's circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825). She was renamed after the navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. In his second voyage in the Astrolabe and the Zélée he sailed from Toulon on 7 September 1837 with the aim to reach the most southerly point possible at this time in the Weddell Sea; to pass through the Strait of Magellan; to travel up the coast of Chile in order to head for Oceania with the objective of inspecting the new British colonies in Western Australia; to sail to Hobart; and to sail to New Zealand to find opportunities for French whalers and to examine places where a penal colony might be established. After passing through the East Indies, the mission would have to round the Cape of Good Hope and returning on 6 November 1840.
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