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• Byte 34: The Great Navigator In His Own Words – Part 5 – “Meeting the Locals in Tahiti”
  on Aug 24, 2011 in Discovery Age of Discovery Australian History Captain Cook
  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”
  on Jul 25, 2011 in Discovery Captain Cook HMS Endeavour Joseph Banks
  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”
  on Jul 22, 2011 in Discovery Alexander Dalrymple Captain Cook Edmund Halley Transit of Venus
  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”
  on Jul 18, 2011 in Discovery Admiral Saunders Canada Captain Cook
  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 1
  on Jul 4, 2011 in Discovery Captain Cook Lieutenant Governor Robert Ross Siege of Louisbourg
  So 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’s
  on Jun 28, 2011 in Background Byte James Lind Magellan scurvy Vasco de Gama
  Did 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’s
  on Jun 28, 2011 in Background Byte James Lind Magellan scurvy Vasco de Gama
  Did 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’s
  on Jun 20, 2011 in Background Byte
  Time 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’s
  on Jun 20, 2011 in Background Byte
  Time 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’s
  on Jun 13, 2011 in Background Byte Age of Discovery Alexander Dalrymple Isaac Newtown Royal Society Transit of VenusTerra Australis Incognita
  Now 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...

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