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The Voyages of Sir Joseph Banks Voyage 1 Image Descriptions - Interactive Globe - The Voyages of Sir Joseph Banks Voyage 1 - Labrador & Newfoundland: HMS Niger Plymouth Image Description Credit Portrait of Joseph Banks Wikimedia 1773 Joshua Reynolds Commons Painting of a ship under sail from Plymouth Wikimedia This image is of one of Captain Cook’s ships, Commons Wellcome Plymouth siege map from a century earlier - 1643 Wikimedia Commons Banks visited the countryside inland from Plymouth Wikimedia – this is a view of the River Plym source looking Commons from Sharpitor to Meavy Grand Banks Map of the Atlantic - The Platt of Sayling for the The British discoverye of a Passage into the South Sea [i.e Library Board Hudson's Bay]. Maps 70095 ‘English ships at sea running before a gale’ Royal Museums Willem van de Velde Greenwich Map of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland Antique Print Canada Library/Alamy Stock Photo 1 Baffin's Bay Newfoundland ‘A November Gale’ and Labrador Heritage Newfoundland iceberg just off Exploits Island Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Ships fishing for cod in the Grand Banks Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Sailing ships at the entrance to St John’s, The British Newfoundland Library Board Maps K Top. 122.30.a Winter in Newfoundland Wikimedia Commons St John’s Newfoundland Birds on cliff Shutterstock Brown bear Shutterstock Eagle Newfoundland Wikimedia Commons 2 Cree Chief Mähsette Kuiuab Newfoundland Chief of the Cree Indians and Labrador Heritage Web Site Trading in Newfoundland 1700’s The British Library Board 666.1.9 (2) Newfoundland coastline Wikimedia Commons Sunrise on Newfoundland coast Wikimedia Commons The yawl of the 'Luxborough_Galley' arriving in © Royal Newfoundland Museums John Cleveley Greenwich Chateau Bay, Labrador Illustration of Great Auk, Thomas Pennant Nature Picture Pinguinis impennis Library/Alamy Stock Photo Puffin Shutterstock Fratercula arctica Newfoundland Cod scaffolding for drying cod and Labrador Heritage Web Site An Inuit Family Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Labrador Eskimoindianer Newfoundland Herrnhuter Missionars and Labrador Heritage Web Site 3 Mikak and Tukauk Newfoundland John Russell and Labrador Painting commissioned by Joseph Banks Heritage Web Site St John's, Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Fort York, Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site Voyage 2 Plymouth to Tahiti and Australia and Circumnavigation of Globe: HMS Endeavour Plymouth Joseph Banks Wikimedia William Parry Commons Captain James Cook (1728-1779) Nathaniel © National Dance Maritime Museum, A three-quarter-length portrait of Captain Greenwich, Cook, seated to the left, facing the right. He London, Greenwich is wearing captain's full-dress uniform, 1774- Hospital 1787, consisting of a navy blue jacket, white Collection.BHC2628 waistcoat with gold braid and gold buttons and white breeches. He wears a grey wig or his own hair powdered. He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it. His left thumb and finger lightly hold the other edge of the chart over his knee. His hat sits on the table behind him to the left on top of a substantial book, perhaps his journal, itself resting on the chart. Return of a fleet into Plymouth harbour © National Maritime Museum, A depiction of Plymouth showing a fleet Greenwich, London under an admiral of the blue squadron BHC1913 4 returning with a prize, in a topsail breeze, with views over Plymouth Sound. In the foreground is Firestone Bay, with Drake's Island in the left background and Mount Edgcumbe on the right. Through his careful delineation of the ships, which are entering the Cremyll Passage, the artist has fused a landscape painting with one concerned with the sea at a period when he was working in England. HMS Endeavour, Plymouth Wikimedia Commons Madeira Crop swallowtail fish drawing Wikimedia From Endeavour voyage Commons Swallowtail Wikimedia Anthias anthias Commons Coastline Madeira Wikimedia Commons Sibthorpia peregrina Wikimedia Commons Ananas comosa Wikimedia Pineapple Commons Strelitzia reginae Wikimedia Commons 5 Pico Ruivo Madeira Wikimedia Commons Liocarcinus depurator Wikimedia Crab Commons South America Pereskia grandifolia Wikimedia Rio de Janeiro Commons Stigmaphyllon ciliatum Wikimedia Rio de Janeiro Commons Bougainvillea spectabilis Wikimedia Rio de Janeiro Commons View of Rio de Janeiro from the voyage © The British View of Rio de Janeiro, from the anchoring Library Board place. Fort St. Sebastian on the left, and the Benedictine convent on the high ground above the ship, the Old Ambuscade. November 1768 A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage, 1768-1771. Artist/creator"Buchan, Alexander (Alexander Buchan)" Rio de Janeiro landscape Wikimedia Commons Bay of Good Success, Tierra del Fuego Wikimedia Commons Tierra del Fuego wigwams Wikimedia Commons 6 Woman in Tierra del Fuego – painting from © The British voyage Library Board A woman of the island of Tierra del Fuego. January 1769 A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visted by Captain Cook in his First Voyage. 1768-1771. Artist/creator"Buchan, Alexander Tahiti Breadfruit drawing Wikimedia Artocarpus altilis Commons Frangipani Wikimedia Plumeria_rubra Commons Red_hibiscus Wikimedia Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Commons ‘The Lad Taiyota, Native of Otaheite, in the Dress © Royal Society of his Country’ Richard Bernard Godfrey after Sydney Parkinson Taiyota (Taiata) was the young servant of Toobaiah (Tupaia), "a sort of high-priest of Otaheite [Tahiti]", and is here seen playing "a musical instrument, somewhat like a flute, which they blow into through their noses". Both Tupaia and Taiata travelled on with Endeavour, James Cook's voyage, but died in Batavia, on the return voyage to Europe. Illustration from A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, The Endeavour, by Sydney Parkinson (London, 1773), which was published posthumously. The King of Tahiti - "Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, © The British Jacques (Jaques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur)" Library Board Encyclopédie des Voyages 7 View of Matavai Bay – engraving © Royal Society Landscape view of Matavai Bay on the island of Tahiti, showing HMS Endeavour anchored in the bay, near to Fort Venus, James Cook’s temporary stronghold during observations of the Transit of Venus. Inscribed above: ‘London. Published by Alexr. Hogg at the King’s Arms No.16 Paternoster Row.’ Inscribed below: ‘Carey sculp. View of Matavia Bay in OTAHEITE, taken from One Tree Hill, which Tree is a New Species of the Erythirina.’ Artist/Creator: James Cook (1728-1779) British explorer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1776. Tahiti landscape Wikimedia Commons Tahiti Royal Museums Greenwich Society Islands Thespesia populnea Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Entada phaseoloides Commons Indian tulip tree Wikimedia Thespesia_populnea Commons 8 View of a canoe house used by the © The British inhabitants of the Society Islands, after a Library Board drawing by Sydney Parkinson, Charts, Plans, Views, and Drawings taken on board the Endeavour during Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768-1771. Artist/creator"Praval, Charles (Charles Praval)" Bora Bora Wikimedia Commons A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite. Four figures in a © The British boat, two rowing in the stern, a woman Library Board standing at the mast, to which is secured a tall, narrow sail with a long tassel flying from the top, with another ship in the background to right, near a mountain. Creator: John Webber Society island Wikimedia Commons 'View of part of Owharre_(Fare) Harbour, Royal Museums Island of Huahine' Greenwich New Zealand Clianthus Puniceus Wikimedia Commons New Zealand forest Wikimedia Commons Portrait of a New Zealand man © The British Library 9 A Maori man and Joseph Banks exchanging a © The British Crayfish for a piece of cloth, c.1769 Library Tupaia 1769 New Zealand war canoe -Drawings made in © The British the Countries visited by Library Captain Cook in his First Voyage (1770) Indian Island, Fiordland, New Zealand Wikimedia Aotearoa Commons New Zealand Bay Wikimedia Commons Ruakaka Beach, Bream Bay Wikimedia Commons Botany Bay Banksia integrifolia monticola flower Wikimedia White mountain Banksia Commons Banksia integrifolia drawing Wikimedia Commons Grevillea oleoides Wikimedia Red Spider Flower Commons Grey Kangaroo Royal Museums Aboriginal name: Gangurru Greenwich Macropus giganteus Rainbow Lorikeet Wikimedia Trichoglossus haematodus Commons Botany Bay Illustration of Captain James Cook and Classic Image/ botanist Joseph Banks examining the wild life Alamy Stock and flora in Botany Bay Australia Photo 10 A View of the Watering Place at Tolaga Bay © The British Charts, Plans, Views, and Drawings taken on Library Board board the Endeavour during Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768-1771. Artist: Captain Cook Botany Bay Wikimedia Commons Indonesia (at Banks’ time known by the Dutch name Batavia) Pagoda Flower Wikimedia Clerodendrum paniculatum Commons Red batavia Wikimedia Commons Cape Jasmine Gardenia Wikimedia jasminoides Commons Phaethon rubricauda Wikimedia Commons Red-tailed Tropicbird Wikimedia Phaethon rubricauda Commons Balinese slave in Batavia in 1700 from Wikimedia Cornelis de Bruin Commons Voyages de Corneille le Brun Dutch merchants Wikimedia Commons Engraving of Batavia Wikimedia Commons 11 Voyage 3 via Scotland to Iceland: HMS Sir Lawrence Gravesend Constantine John Phipps 2nd Baron Mulgrave © National Artist unknown Portrait Gallery, London
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