The two ships return to New Zealand …
Years: 1773 - 1773
November
The two ships return to New Zealand after calling at Tonga in the Friendly Islands, but are separated by a storm on October 22.
This time the rendezvous at Queen Charlotte Sound is missed—Resolution departs on November 26, four days before Adventure arrives.
Cook leaves a message buried in the sand setting out his plan to explore the South Pacific and return to New Zealand.
Furneaux decides to return home and buries a reply to that effect.
This time the rendezvous at Queen Charlotte Sound is missed—Resolution departs on November 26, four days before Adventure arrives.
Cook leaves a message buried in the sand setting out his plan to explore the South Pacific and return to New Zealand.
Furneaux decides to return home and buries a reply to that effect.
Locations
People
- Anders Sparrman
- Charles Clerke
- Georg Forster
- George Vancouver
- James Burney
- James Cook
- Jean-Baptiste Charle Bouvet de Lozier
- Joseph Banks
- Tobias Furneaux
- William Bayly
- William Hodges
- William Wales
Groups
Topics
- Exploration of Oceania, European
- Voyages of scientific exploration, European and American
- Cook, Second Voyage of James
