Executive summary by darmansjah
ISLAND HOPPER from 1772 to 1775, during his
second expediton-a fruitless bid to find themythical Terra Australis-Captain
James Cook – THE CAPTAIN from merchant navy apprentice to Royal Navy
captain. James Cook (1728-1779) commanded three historic voyages, during which
he charted countless coastlines, claimed the eastern coast of Australia
for Britain, circled Antarctica, and became the first known European to reach
the Hawaiian Islands and over the final hump from Fortuna Bay to the remains of
the Stromness whaling station. Polar
Explorers: “Shackleton Crossing of
South Georgia Island,” 17 days; $18,350 -
cruised Polynesia on the H.M.S. Resolution.
He stopped to chart Easter Island, the launching point for this voyages abroad
the 114-passenger M.S. Caledonian Sky.
The next few ports, in the Pitcairn Islands, recall another Royal Society foray
some 15 years later, as the place settled by some of the mutineers of the
H.M.S. Bounty. Meet some of their
descendants before calling on the idyllic, if less storied, island of Mangareva
and the Tuamotus archipelago for nature walks and snorkeling amid iridescent
fish. Wilderness Travel:
“ in the Wake of the
Bounty: Easter Island to Tahiti aboard the M.S, Caledonian Sky,” 19
days; $11,495
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