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Small bytes of history covering the search for Australia, its colonisation and general history...
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- Byte 34: The Great Navigator In His Own Words – Part 5 – “Meeting the Locals in Tahiti”On the 12th of April 1769 Cook wrote: “and at 6 AM it (Tahiti) bore from SSW to WBN being little wind and calm several of the Natives came off to us in their Canoes, but more to look at us than any thing else we could not prevail with an...
- Byte 33 – The Great Navigator – Part 4 – “Assembling the Team & Setting Sail”So in May 1768, with Lieutenant Cook duly appointed to the command of the Endeavour, he steps on board and takes charge of the ship. The Endeavour lay in Deptford-yard, where she was being fitted out for sea….. In the meantime, every good ship...
- Byte 32 – The Great Navigator Steps Forth – Part 3 – “Secret Instructions & Colonial Ambitions”We finally move towards Cook’s voyage of discovery. He is back in England after his nearly 10 years in Canada. By now an officer of technical reputation, but not what you would say, of public reputation. Rather a man in waiting. Enter Edmund Hail...
- Byte 31: The Great Navigator Steps Forth – Part 2 “The Canadian Years”So how is our shopkeeper from the little coastal village of Staithes fairing? We left off in the last byte with our shopkeeper hitting the high seas and heading for Canada with the British Navy…. Well, Cook arrives in Halifax, Canada in Ma...
- Byte 30: The Great Navigator Steps Forth – Part 1So I have to tell you a little secret. It was an apprentice shopkeeper who discovered the Great Southern Land. I kid you not! Well, may be a little bit. The part that is true is the apprentice shopkeeper part. It is, however, perhaps more accurate...
- Byte 29: Background – An Enemy to Defeat – 1740 to 1790’sDid you know that there was an shipboard disease that killed more sailors than all battles, storms and other diseases combined between the 16th to the 18th centuries? This is the question that sets us off on another small, but hopefully interesting d...
- Byte 29: Background – An Enemy to Defeat – 1740 to 1790’sDid you know that there was an shipboard disease that killed more sailors than all battles, storms and other diseases combined between the 16th to the 18th centuries? This is the question that sets us off on another small, but hopefully interesting d...
- Byte 28: Background – Naval Exploration – Times Are a Changing Pt. 2 – 1760’son Jun 20, 2011 in Background ByteTime to get back on track. Let’s do a bit of a survey of the status of naval exploration at this time. As mentioned previously, “the times were are a changing”… I think we can describe the period around the 1760’s as the start of a ne...
- Byte 28: Background – Naval Exploration – Times Are a Changing Pt. 2 – 1760’son Jun 20, 2011 in Background ByteTime to get back on track. Let’s do a bit of a survey of the status of naval exploration at this time. As mentioned previously, “the times were are a changing”… I think we can describe the period around the 1760’s as the start of a ne...
- Byte 27: Background – The Royal Society – The Times Are A Changing – 1750’sNow to Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, and theologian…. What, you ask? How can we get Isaac Newton into our story of Australia and its discovery? Well, believe me we can. Back in England during th...
- Byte 26: Background – A Clash of Cultures Draws Near – 1750’sAs we venture towards the European colonisation (or invasion) of Terra Australis, let’s catch up on the situation of indigenous Australians around this time. They possessed one of the oldest continuous cultures on the planet. But what makes the...
- Byte 26: Background – A Clash of Cultures Draws Near – 1750’sAs we venture towards the European colonisation (or invasion) of Terra Australis, let’s catch up on the situation of indigenous Australians around this time. They possessed one of the oldest continuous cultures on the planet. But what makes the...
- Byte 25: Discovery – The English Set Sail – William Dampier in Action – 1690’s“I first set out of England on this voyage at the beginning of the year 1679, in the Loyal Merchant of London, bound for Jamaica…” So starts Captain William Dampier in his book A New Voyage Around The World, which describes his fi...
- Byte 25: Discovery – The English Set Sail – William Dampier in Action – 1690’s“I first set out of England on this voyage at the beginning of the year 1679, in the Loyal Merchant of London, bound for Jamaica…” So starts Captain William Dampier in his book A New Voyage Around The World, which describes his fi...