James Cook and HMB Endeavour

The work, The Strange Big Canoe, created with the team from Ample Projects, is based on journal records and Indigenous histories that weave keynotes from HMB Endeavour’s voyage along the east coast into the perspectives of Indigenous communities along the shore and officers and crew on the ship. From first sightings of land and ship on 19 April 1770 at Tolylwarar in the south-east, a place Cook renamed Point Hicks, coastal communities watched as the ship made its way along the coastline - sending smoke signals ahead of it - as its commander Captain Cook watched, recorded and renamed lands from Kamay, Botany Bay to Bedhan Lag in the north on 22 August. There Cook planted the flag, renamed the island Possession Island, and sailed Endeavour north towards the spice islands, its hull full of plants and animals that had been collected. 
 

The tale of how a little coal-carrying ship, originally called the Earl of Pembroke, but better known as His Majesty's Bark Endeavour. Endeavour travelled around the world under the command of Lieutenant James Cook (Captain Cook), mapping many islands in the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand and along the East Coast of Australia, before ending up sunk at the bottom of Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, USA.