IN CONTEXT
Pacific and Australasian exploration
1642–1644 Dutchman Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach New Zealand and Tasmania.
1768–1771 James Cook makes his first voyage to Australia and New Zealand.
1772–1775 Cook sails close to Antarctica, and around the southern Pacific.
1776–1779 Cook’s third voyage takes him to Hawaii, where he is killed in a fight with local people.
1788 The first convicts from Britain arrive at the Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) penal colony.
1802 British navigator Matthew Flinders circumnavigates Australia.
In 1768, British navigator James Cook sailed to Tahiti to make scientific observations of the ...
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