No Further North

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics

Richard Lansdown¹ 

[1] James Cook University, Australia;

关键词: james cook;    endeavour;    voyage;    the ship;    wreck;    cooktown;    far north queensland;    tropics;    story;    tropical landscapes;   

DOI  :  10.25120/etropic.1.1.2002.3453

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

James Cook's Endeavour, the ship that took him on his first voyage of discovery between 1768 and 1771, has unexpectedly turned up on the sea floor of Newport harbour, Rhode Island. There the Whitby collier ended its days in 1778, having been renamed, having served as a prison ship for the British, and having being sunk to protect the harbour from American attack. (These were the days of the War of Independence.) A legal tussle is now anticipated between the good folk of Newport, for whom possession is nine points of the law, and the British Government, which nominally still owns the wreck.

【 授权许可】

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