Welcome to South Seas 2.0

Here you will find the Endeavour Journals of James Cook, Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson. The journals are presented so that you can see what each of the three voyagers wrote on each day of Cook's momentous first voyage (1768-1771).

You will also find journal entries are linked to the relevant pages in John Hawkesworth's official account of the voyage, published in 1773.

South Seas 1.0 is now archived with the National Library of Australia. This new version 2.0 is a work in progress.

Maps and images originally presented using Adobe's deprecated Shockwave Flash have now been converted to HTML 5. There may be some minor glitches until linkages etc. can be throughly checked.

Search functionality is being progressively restored.

South Seas 2.0 will eventually provide direct links to facsimiles of the core texts of James Cook's momentous first voyage.

This new version has been created by Paul Turnbull using digital cartography created by Chris Blackall and texts of Hawkesworth's account of the voyage corrected by Christine Winter.

The transcription of Cook's journal conserved by the National Library of Australia (NLA Ms 1) was made by Paul Turnbull and may be reproduced in whole or part for educational purposes.

We gratefully acknowledge the Australian Research Council and the National Library's support of this project between 2000-2004

If you have any queries or suggestions for further development, do please contact me by email: paul.turnbull@utas.edu.au