Chapter ID: CBB421650298

Astronomy on Cook’s Third Voyage: Queen Charlotte Sound, 1777 (2016)

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Cook’s Third Voyage to the South Seas was undertaken in search of an assumed ‘northwest passage’ linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Once again two ex-Whitby colliers were involved, the Resolution under the command of Captain James Cook, and the Discovery, skippered by Lieutenant Charles Clerke. Following up from his Second Voyage experience, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomer William Bayly was again assigned to this voyage, and served on board the Discovery, while Cook and Second Lieutenant James King shared the astronomical responsibilities on the Resolution. This voyage only involved a single short stop-over in Queen Charlotte Sound, during which further astronomical observations were made for the calculation of latitude and longitude. These built on the very extensive series taken during the various Second Voyage stop-overs in the Sound. The final result, reported in this chapter, differs little from the currently-accepted values, and shows the level of precision these early astronomers were able to achieve with what today would be regarded as inferior instruments.

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Authors & Contributors
Orchiston, Wayne
Williams, Glyndwr
Finnis, Bill
Howse, H. Derek
Hunting, Penelope
Mabberley, David J.
Journals
Antiquity
Archives of Natural History
Journal for Maritime Research: Britian, the Sea and Global History
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Journal of Historical Geography
Mariner's Mirror
Publishers
Yale University Press
University of British Columbia
Boydell Press
Chaucer Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Rosenberg Pub.
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Cartography
Scientific expeditions
Maps; atlases
Observation
People
Cook, James
Banks, Joseph
Dampier, William
Darwin, Charles Robert
Parkinson, Sydney
Buchan, Alexander
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Pacific Ocean
England
Australia
Great Britain
France
New Zealand
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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