Principally, the purpose of the voyage was an attempt to discover the famed Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific around the top of North America. Cook's orders from the Admiralty wer ...
The prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held theory that people speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands some 4,000 years ago. Pottery frag ...
At the last census in 2009 New Caledonia had a population of 245,580. Of these, 17,436 live in the Loyalty Islands Province, 45,137 in the North Province, and 183,007 in the South Province. Population ...
Ahu are stone platforms. Varying greatly in layout, many were reworked during or after the huri mo'ai or statue-toppling era; many became ossuaries; one was dynamited open; and Ahu Tongariki was swept ...
The name "Easter Island" was given by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday (5 April) 1722, while searching for Davis or ...
In August 1773 he embarked from Huahine on the British ship HMS Adventure, commanded by Commander Tobias Furneaux, which had touched at Tahiti as part of James Cook's second voyage of discovery in the ...
Main article: Territorial claims in AntarcticaDate Country Territory Claim limits Map1908 United Kingdom British Antarctic Territory 20°W to 80°W Antarctica, United Kingdom territorial claim.svg19 ...
The name Antarctica is the romanized version of the Greek compound word ?νταρκτικ? (antarktiké), feminine of ?νταρκτικ?? (antarktikos), meaning "opposite to the Arctic", "opposit ...
The area south of the Antarctic Circle is known as the Antarctic, and the zone immediately to the north is called the Southern Temperate Zone. The equivalent line of latitude in the northern hemispher ...
The graticule formed by the lines of constant latitude and constant longitude is constructed with reference to the rotation axis of the Earth. The primary reference points are the poles where the axis ...
HMS Adventure was a barque of the Royal Navy that sailed with Resolution on James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific in 1772–1775. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to ...
Furneaux was born at Swilly House near Stoke Damerel, Plymouth-Dock, son of William Furneaux (1696-1748) of Swilly, and Susanna Wilcocks (1698-1775). He entered the Royal Navy and was employed on the ...
Resolution began her career as the North Sea collier Marquis of Granby, launched at Whitby in 1770, and purchased by the Royal Navy in 1771 for ?4,151 (equivalent to ?474,800 today). She was origina ...
In 1752 a member of the Royal Society of London, Alexander Dalrymple, had found Luis Váez de Torres testimony proving the existence of a passage south of New Guinea now known as Torres Strait, whilst ...
The coastal area of northern West Java in and around Jakarta has been the location of human settlement since the 4th century BCE Buni culture. The earliest historical record discovered in Jakarta is a ...
