Marked Tahiti

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Tasman, Cook and Tupaia

European ships began to chart the Pacific. Abel Tasman reached Tasmania and Aotearoa in 1642; James Cook’s three voyages mapped coasts from New Zealand to Hawai’i, guided in part by the Tahitian navigator Tupaia.

Place
Tahiti · Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) · Botany Bay · Kealakekua BayOceania, Europe
Laid out as
A routeA road, a sea lane or a trade network, followed stop by stop.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. Tahiti
  2. Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne)
  3. Botany Bay
  4. Kealakekua Bay
  1. ITasman and the Dutch
  2. IIThe transit of Venus
  3. IIITupaia’s chart
  4. IVBotany Bay, 1770
  5. VHawai’i, 1779
  6. VIWho discovered whom?

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Abel Tasman
  • James Cook
  • Tupaia
  • Joseph Banks
  • Mai

Objects

  • Tupaia’s chart
  • Cook’s journals

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1642 to 1779. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?