Captain Cook's Endeavour Journal open on display

The Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour on display in the Library's Treasures Gallery

While Captain Cook's journal from the H.M.S. Endeavour is often on display in the Library's Treasures Gallery, it is currently not on display to allow rest and treatment for the long term preservation of the item.

You can still read the journal by:

Our Treasures from the National Library website has further information on the journal and how it came into the Library's collection.

Our South Seas website also features the journal, and is a rich online resource on European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800.

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