Captain cook, p.13
Captain Cook, page 13
Manukau, 64
Maria van Diemen, Cape, 64
Marion du Fresne, 143
Marquesas, 126
Matavai Bay, 45, 46, 47, 110, 127, 147
Maui, 154–155, 158
Mauritius, 104
Mercury Bay, 62
Mercury, transit of, 62
Moorea (island), 52, 147
New Caledonia, 133
Newfoundland, 15, 20
New Guinea, 80, 81
New Hebrides, 132
New Holland, 41
New South Wales, 82
New Zealand, 27, 55–70, 72, 108, 114
Niue, 129
Norfolk Island, 133
North-West Passage, 138, 145, 159, 165
Norton Sound, 152
Norway, 11
Oahu, 150
Odiddy, 111, 128–129
Omai, 111, 141, 142
Palea, Chief, 156
Palliser, Cape, 115
Palliser, Capt. Sir Hugh, 15, 95, 140, 167
Palmerston Island, 129, 145
Papua, Gulf of, 82–83
Parkinson, Sydney, 31, 86, 89
Pickersgill, Lieutenant Richard, 95, 139
Pitcairn’s Island, 108
Plenty, Bay of, 62, 74
Plymouth, 82
Polynesia, 46
Port Nicholson, 115
Poverty Bay, 60, 62
Prince Edward Group, 143
Prince of Wales, Cape, 153
Prince William Sound, 152
Quebec, 18–19, 20
Queen Charlotte Sound, 65, 69, 71, 93, 105, 107, 108, 115, 117, 133, 143
Quiros, Pedro de, 41, 129
Raiatea, 55, 128
Rio de Janeiro, 34, 35
Runaway, Cape, 62
St Lawrence, Bay of, 153
St Lawrence River, 18, 19, 20, 41
Samwell, David, 143, 166–167
Sandwich Islands, 149, 154, 157
Sandwich, Lord, 6, 149
Savage Island, 129
Seven Year’s War, 13, 15
Siberia, 153
Society Islands, 55
Solander, Dr Carl, 31, 74, 89
South America, 27, 33, 34
South Pole, 38
South Georgia, 135
South Sandwich Islands, 135
Southern Alps, 69
Southern Thule, 135
Southwest Cape, 68
Sparrman, Anders, 100, 110, 113–114
Staithes, 9
Stewart Island, 68, 69, 73
Suva, 83
Sydney, 75
Tahiti, 27, 32, 41, 43, 45, 46–55, 109, 111–112, 127–128, 147
Tahuata, 126
Tanna, 131–132
Tasman, 41, 57–58, 63, 69, 72–73, 111
Tasmania, 57, 72–73, 108, 143
Three Kings Islands, 64
Tiata, 55, 61
Tierra del Fuego, 39, 135
Tolaga Bay, 62, 116
Tongatabu (Tasman’s ‘Amsterdam’), 114
Torres, 82
Torres Strait, 82
Tuborai, Chief, 51–52
Tupia, 55, 56, 60, 62, 85
Turnagain, Cape, 61, 66
Unalaska, 152, 154
Vaipupu River, 47
Vaitepiha Bay, 109, 110, 111
Vancouver, George, 140
Vancouver, Island, 151
Van Dicmen’s Land, 72, 143
Venus, transit of, 25, 26, 30, 32, 35, 51, 52, 97
Waipoua, 58
Wales, William, 99
Walker, Henry and John, 10, 11, 12
Wallis, Captain Samuel, 26, 27, 30, 31, 42, 51, 95
Wapping, 1
Webber, John, 143, 144
Wellington, 115
Whitby, England, 10
Wolfe, General, 18, 20
York, Cape, 81
Young, Nicholes, 57
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