Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia

Contents

Contents

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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