What was Cook’s first voyage actually hoping to achieve? What was the background of the collaboration between the Royal Society and the Admiralty? The answers to these questions and more in this episode!

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Drawing of the black drop effect observed by James Cook and Charles Green during the 1769 Transit of Venus

Photo of the black drop effect during the 2004 Transit of Venus. From Wikipedia

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In this “unashamedly homegrown” podcast we tell the story of our islands from the time before people arrived all the way up to the year 2000.

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