Marking the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook setting sail in one of the greatest voyages of discovery of all time aboard HM Bark Endeavour - with nearly 100 men including astronomers, artists and scientists.
2018
(August 16 2018)
Commemorative
Stamps
Sir Joseph Banks
2nd
Sir Joseph Banks Bt by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Phaethon rubricauda (red-tailed tropicbird) by Sydney Parkinson and Passiflora aurantia (red passion flower) outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson finished by Fred Polydore Nodder
Chief Mourner of Tahiti
2nd
Chief Mourner of Tahiti and a scene with a canoe by the artist of the Chief Mourner (Tupaia)
Captain James Cook
1st
Captain James Cook by Nathaniel Dance, Triumph of the Navigators by Robin Brooks
Drawings of the observations of the transit of Venus, 1769
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Drawings of the observations of the transit of Venus, 1769, by Charles Green and Lieutenant James Cook alongside a photograph of a sextant
Clianthus puniceus (Scarlet Clianthus)
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Clianthus puniceus (scarlet clianthus) by Sydney Parkinson and a portrait of a Maori Chief with full facial moko
Volantinia jacarina (Blue-Black Grassquit)
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Volatinia jacarina (blue-black grassquit) by Sydney Parkinson and Sydney Parkinson, self-portrait
Charting a new course: New Zealand and Australia
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A chart exhibiting the discoveries made by Captain James Cook by Lieutenant Roberts
Life on Raiatea: boathouse and canoes
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Boathouse and canoes on Raiatea, Society Islands
Mapping New Zealand: a Maori clifftop fort
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An arched rock with a Maori clifftop fort in New Zealand
Disaster avoided: repairs on the Endeavour River
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Repairing The Endeavour on the Endeavour River, Australia