Captain Cook charts the eastern coast of Australia

Category
Discovery
Place
Austral Realm
Date
1770
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"On April 29, the ship entered a wide inlet, where Joseph Banks and other naturalists collected so many plants that Cook named the place Botany Bay. Here the crew had its first encounter with a group of local Aboriginals, who refused their gifts and threw spears. The explorers were forced to chase them off with musket fire." [1001 Days]

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Category
Geography
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2020
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