Victoria University of Wellington Library
Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia
Contents
Contents
Page
Foreword
v
Introduction
1
The East Indies
1
America
1
Ferdinand Magellan
3
Loyasa and Saavedra
4
Villalobos and Gaetano
5
Legaspi and Urdaneta
5
Alvaro de Mendaña
6
Sir Francis Drake
6
Thomas Cavendish and others
7
Mendaña and Quiros
7
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
8
Early Dutch voyages
11
Olivier van Noort
11
The Dutch East India Company
12
Joris Spilbergen
12
Le Maire and Schouten
13
The Nassau Fleet
15
Terra Australia Incognita
16
Abel Tasman
17
Buccaneers and privateers
18
>Jacob Roggeveen
19
British Explorers, 1740 to 1780
20
George Anson
20
John Byron
21
Wallis and Carteret
23
James Cook's first voyage
25
Cook's second voyage
26
Cook's third voyage
30
British navigators, 1780 to 1800
34
Portlock and Dixon
35
John Watts
36
William Bligh
36
John Meares
38
George Mortimer
38
Edward Edwards
39
George Vancouver
41
William Robert Broughton
45
James Wilson
46
French explorers of the eighteenth century
49
Louis de Bougainville
49
De Surville
51
Marion de Fresne and Croze
51
La Pérouse
54
Etienne Marchand
55
Bruni D'Entrecasteaux
56
Summary
59
Spanish voyages of the eighteenth century
59
Felipe Gonzalez
60
Domingo Boenechea
60
Boenechea and Gayangos
60
Cayetano de Langara
61
Francisco Antonio Maurelle
62
Summary
62
American voyages of the eighteenth century
63
Joseph Ingraham
63
Josiah Roberts
64
Edmund Fanning
65
Summary
67
Russian voyages
68
Russian voyagers, 1803 to 1826
69
Von Krusenstern
69
Urey Lisiansky
72
Hagenmeister
72
Mikhail Lazarev
73
Otto von Kotzebue's first voyage
74
Vassili Golovnin
75
Thaddeus Bellingshausen
77
Von Kotzebue's second voyage
78
Summary
79
French voyages of the nineteenth century
80
Camille de Roquefeuil
80
Louis de Freycinet
81
Louis Duperrey
83
Dumont d'Urville's first voyage
83
Duhaut-Cilly
84
J. A. Moerenhout
85
Abel du Petit-Thouars
86
Dumont d'Urville's second voyage
87
Summary
88
British voyages, 1800 to 1850
89
John Turnbull
89
Peter Corney
90
George Anson Byron
91
Frederick W. Beechey
92
Peter Dillon
95
Frederick Debell Bennett
97
Robert Fitz-Roy
98
Edward Belcher
99
Lord Edward Russell
100
John Erskine
101
Summary
101
American voyages, 1800 to 1842
101
David Porter
102
Charles S. Stewart
105
John Downes
105
Charles Wilkes
106
Summary
109
Literature cited
110
Index
113