1770: A Space Odyssey

by Matthew Coller, for LibraryHack 2011

Watch James Cook's Endeavour animate around the globe, while the Endeavour Journal flips through its pages to the left (click here to enlarge journal). You can zoom-in to see the voyage in more detail, or grab the big pointer on the timeline to scan forward or back through the voyage, and cover-to cover through the journal.

Click to add routes of: Tasman, Dampier, St Aloüarn, Cook's 2nd Voyage . Overlay: Maps through time. To reset the view, re-start your browser.

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The Temporal Earth Project is looking for volunteers to help digitise many types of historical resources, and turn them into time-based visualisations like this one - eg. drawing the time-tracks of all European explorers of Australia and the Pacific. Please contact Matt Coller if you'd like to be involved in an exciting new project! Check out the SahulTime prototype.

Sources for this project