Article ID: CBB536153501

“Weather, People, Ship”: The Environment’s Impact on Cook’s First Voyage into the Pacific (2023)

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This research explores how the eighteenth-century Pacific environment shaped James Cook’s first voyage into the South Seas. Although a multitude of different investigations and numerous biographies on Cook examine this exploration, there is limited analysis of its environmental dimension. This study offers a new perspective on this famous voyage – in terms of cultural and technological impediments – from the Island of Tahiti to Aotearoa New Zealand, and to the Eastern Coast of Australia. Through a reading of expedition accounts that focus on environmental elements, it is possible to shed new light on the failure to discover the Southern Continent, uncover mistakes in observations about new territories, and understand conflicts with Indigenous people. The aim of this article is to widen the discussion about eighteenth-century European explorers by highlighting the impact of rain, winds, heat, and waters on human will and actions.

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Article Richard Weiner (2023) Cartography and Climate in Exploration History: The Cases of Cook, La Salle, and the Admiral’s Map. Terrae Incognitae (pp. 217-218). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gascoigne, John
Williams, Glyndwr
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Broughton, William Robert
Camino, Mercedes Maroto
David, Andrew
Journals
American Historical Review
Australian Historical Studies
Environmental History
History and Technology
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal for Maritime Research: Britian, the Sea and Global History
Publishers
Yale University Press
Hakluyt Society
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society
CSIC
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Sea travel
Scientific expeditions
Environmental history
Science and culture
Weather
People
Cook, James
Banks, Joseph
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Broughton, William Robert
Dampier, William
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
16th century
20th century
Places
Pacific Ocean
Europe
Spain
Great Britain
Australia
France
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Royal Society of London
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