Sept 23 The Cook Voyages and the Origins of New South Wales

Introduction

Anglo-French rivalry

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's circumnavigation (1766)
Voyage autour du monde (1771)

Samuel Wallis (1767-68) and Philip Carteret (1767-68)

James Cook (1768-71, 1772-75, 1776-80) [map]

Bougainville

James Cook

Omai

I. James Cook

SYW

Alexander Dalrymple

Royal Society (founded 1660)

transit of Venus

Joseph Banks

Daniel Solander

Carolus Linnaeus

Journal

Omai

Ode to the Memory of the Late Captain James Cook (1780)

Illustration from Cook's Journal

Omai, Banks, Solander

II. Motives for settlement [Cook's secret instructions]

1) penal colony

2) trading base

3) source of raw materials

4) strategic base

 

III. New South Wales [link]

Aboriginal Australians (300,000)

anglicization

overcrowded prisons; prison hulks

Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet

443 seamen, 568 and 191 female convicts with 13 children, 160 marines and 51 officers
27 soldiers' wives with 19 children, 9 members of the governor's personal staff

Botany Bay > Port Jackson (Sydney Cove)

Norfolk Island

Terra nullius

small pox