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Writing Captain Cook symposium
Professor Geoffrey Blainey, Jackie French, Susan Hall, Dr Maria Nugent and Martin Terry
Historical Interpretation series, 17 May 2009
Leading writers and historians discuss their recent books on Captain James Cook and explore Australia’s continuing fascination with the explorer.
John Gore’s telescope
Michelle Hetherington, National Museum of Australia
Behind the Scenes – Australian Journeys series, 13 February 2008
A Dollond achromatic telescope used by Captain John Gore helps to tell remarkable stories about Captain James Cook’s Pacific voyages and the development of optics and navigational techniques, according to curator Michelle Hetherington.
Encounters with wondrous things: the historical significance of the Cook-Forster Collection
Professor Paul Turnbull, Griffith University
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
The historical significance of the Cook-Forster ethnographic collection of the University of Göttingen in Germany is examined by historian Paul Turnbull.
Brushed with fame: museological investments in the Cook voyage collections
Lissant Bolton, British Museum, United Kingdom
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Lissant Bolton considers the nature of Captain James Cook’s fame in a museological context and discusses how difficult it is to present artefacts from the Pacific in an exhibition without reference to Cook’s three voyages.
Looking across the beach – both ways
Professor Greg Dening, Australian National University
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Greg Dening examines the cultural achievements of the Sea of Islands or Pacific peoples with a particular focus on Tupaia, a priest of Oro, who joined Captain James Cook on the Endeavour.
Discovering Cook: Georg Forster and the image of Captain Cook
Nigel Erskine, Australian National Maritime Museum
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Curator Nigel Erskine discusses the official account of Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage, particularly the introductory essay by German naturalist and fellow voyager Georg Forster.
To attempt some new discoveries in that vast unknown tract
Professor Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, United States
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Anthropologist Adrienne Kaeppler outlines the research that has gone into reconstructing the ethnographic collections from Captain James Cook’s three Pacific voyages.
Cook, his mission and Indigenous Australia: a perspective on consequence
Doreen Mellor, National Library of Australia
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Curator Doreen Mellor examines the life-changing consequences for Australian Indigenous peoples of Captain James Cook’s first Pacific journey, and subsequent European settlement, as the background to the story of the Stolen Generations.
Footprints in the sand: Banks’ Maori collection, Cook’s first voyage 1768–1771
Paul Tapsell, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Captain James Cook series, 28 July 2006
Historian Paul Tapsell discusses how artefacts in Joseph Banks’ collection from Captain James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific can be viewed as ‘taonga’, or Maori treasured possessions.
