Captain Cook wanted to travel as far South as possible...
-After his first voyage, Captain Cook had demonstrated by circumnavigating New Zealand that it was not attached to a larger landmass to the south. Although he charted almost the entire eastern coastline of Australia, showing it to be continental in size, the Terra Australis(Australia) was believed to lie further south. Despite of this, the Royal Society still believed that this massive southern continent should exist.
In this voyage,
The HMS Resolution
-Captain Cook commanded the HMS Resolution, while Tobias Furneaux commanded his companion ship, the HMS Adventure.
In this voyage,
-Captain Cook commanded the HMS Resolution. while Tobias Furneaux commanded his companion ship, the HMS Adventure.
Reaching the Antarctic Circle/South Polar Regions
-On 17 January 1773, the Resolution and the Adventure fad reached the Antarctic Circle, the first ships known to do so. Captain Cook was testing his ship to the limit and his crew to the brink of destruction.
February 1773 ~The Southern Ocean~
The Resolution and the Adventure Seperates
-While James Cook in search for the great southern continent, Tobias Furneaux takes the adventure north to Van Diemen's Land(Modern Tansmania) . At that time no one knows if Van Diemen's Land was joined with Australia. Tobias Furneaux tries to find out but is turned away by bad whether. He then sailes to a place where Captain Cook knows well, Queen Charlotte Sound in New Zealand.
On August 1773
-He leaves new Zealand in the southern winter of 1773. He believed that there is no other southern continent. He now wants to map out the South Pacific and heads for Matavi Bay, Tahiti.
The Map
-It was drawn by Tupaia, the Tahitian who joined Captain Cook in his first Voyage, is the most accurate one Cook has of the Pacific Ocean, covering over 2,200 kilometres .
November 1773
-The Resolution and the Adventure are seperated one again while sailing through the South Pacific and the Resolution returns to New Zealand. After waiting at Queen Charlotte Sound for a month, Captain Cook was very keen to continue his explorations and impatiently sails south into the Antarctic.
On January 1774
Captain Cook reaches his limit.
10 November 1774
- After Captain Cook fell ill on March 1774.
-On 10 November 1774, he makes another turn south, where he discovered South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands, but he failed to reach Antarctica. He speculates that if there indeed were a southern land under the ice it would not be the land of plenty that European powers hoped to find.
-On 10 November 1774, he makes another turn south, where he discovered South Georgia and the South Sandwhich Islands, but he failed to reach Antarctica. He speculates that if there indeed were a southern land under the ice it would not be the land of plenty that European powers hoped to find.
July 1775
-In an effort to disprove the existence of the southern land Captain Cook has swept through the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He now returns home to England.