Resolution and Adventure

By vivianvuong

  • Resolution and Adventure sail from Plymouth

    Captain Cook was in the Resoultion and Lieutenant Furneaux set sail from Britian towards the Antarctic via Madiera.
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    Bibliography

    To make this timeline I used these two links, but I mostly used the first one.
    1. http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/index.htm
    2. http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/the-second-voyage-1771-1776

  • The ships became the first known to have crossed the Antarctic Circle

    The ships became the first known to have crossed the Antarctic Circle
    The Resolution and Adventure crosses the Antarctic Circle to 66°36’S. The ships became separated from the fog and they meet in New Zealand.

  • The ships met again in New Zealand

    They set off to explore the central Pacific.

  • Reached Tahiti

    They approached the Society Islands. They took aboard the Omai from the island of Raiatea who returned with the Adventure to England (7 September).

  • The Friendly Islands

    After visiting Amsterdam and Middelburg, the ships became separated and never met again. Both ships returned separately to New Zealand. (November)

  • Searching for the Great Southern Continent

    This led him to cross the Antarctic Circle.

  • The Adventure returned to Britian

    The boat’s crew from the Adventure were killed by Maori (17 December) and the ship sailed for Britain

  • The Resolution crossed the Antarctic Circle

    The Resolution crossed the Antarctic Circle
    The ice and cold soon forced him to turn south again and he made another search in the central Pacific for the Great Southern Continent. In Feburary 1774 he turned north again,crossing the Antarctic Circle for the second time

  • Cook sailed north

    Cook sailed north
    But on 26 January, 1774 the Resolution crossed the Antarctic Circle for the third time. To travel to Easter Island, but Cook was too ill to go ashore so a small party explored the southern part of the island. William Hodges painted a group of the large statues of heads (moia) for which the island has become famous.

  • Savage Island (Niue)

    Savage Island (Niue)
    Not all the people of the islands visited by Cook were friendly and when his ship approached Niue, the local people would not let his crew ashore.

  • Mallicolo

    Mallicolo
    Cook sailed west and explored the islands which he called the New Hebrides, now known as Vanuatu. The people were Melanesian, not Polynesian, and spoke different languages and had different customs, such as the exposure of skin.

  • The Landing at Erramanga [Erromango]

    The Landing at Erramanga [Erromango]
    At Erromango, during the landing, the marines had to open fire when the natives tried to seize the boat and started to fire missiles. Some of Cook’s crew were slightly injured but several natives were wounded and their leader killed. Back on the ship Cook had a gun fired to frighten off the islanders and decided to depart. Native is shot by marine, William Wedgeborough, later punished.

  • Tierra del Fuego

    Tierra del Fuego
    Cook left New Zealand to return to Britain via the Southern Ocean and arrived in Tierra del Fuego, South America, in December. He spent the holiday in what he called Christmas Sound.

  • Left South America

    Left South America
    Cook set off across the southern Atlantic for Cape Town, South Africa. On the way he tried to confirm the location of a number of islands charted by Alexander Dalrymple on an earlier voyage. On 17 January 1775 Cook arrived at the cold, bleak, glaciated island he called South Georgia and spent 3 days charting it before sailing on.

  • His return

    Cook became a national hero. He was presented to the King, made a member of the Royal Society and received its Copley Medal for achievement. Cook was promoted to post-captain of Greenwich Hospital and wrote up his account of the voyage.