The Endeavour replica is moored outside the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour. This is a replica of the HMB Endeavour, the ship commanded by Captain James Cook, the English explorer, navigator and cartographer. He led an expeditition in 1768-71, which navigated and mapped the eastern coastline of Australia. Construction of the Australian-built replica began in 1988 and it was launched in 1993. It has sailed twice around the world and the museum maintains it for the public to experience 18th-century square-rig voyaging and seamanship. It now circumnavigates Australia and berths in many ports where it opens to the public.
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What a great looking ship, and what a perfect place to moor it. Will the Endeavour stay in front of the Maritime Museum permanently?
Hels, it is moored there permanently and you can take a tour on board. It also takes regular trips along the coast.
Great photo and wonderful ship. Have you been on the tour?
BlossomFlowerGirl, I've walked past in many times on the wharf but haven't actually been on it yet.
What a challenge for time, being taken from the past into the future of the background.
A great picture indeed.
Please have a good start into the new week.
daily athens
That is awesome!
What a wonderful picture. I like the city skyline as the background to such a magnificent ship. There was recently a tall ship festival in Erie, PA. I saw six tall ships from a distance.
Wonderful image J!
That is a beautiful photo. We went on it in Fremantle many moons ago.
I would love for them to come to New Zealand. May be they can do a re-enactment.
Ann, the ship has already made a few voyages around the world and visited New Zealand. There may be another voyage to NZ in the future.
If only Captain Cook could stand on the deck today and see what great city has grown up on the shore.
the sailboats are vessels that have a particular fascination, I was lucky enough to visit Amerigo Vespucci the school ship of Marine Military Italian and I will never forget this wonderful experience
Our fascination with Capt Cook is even more evident in Cooktown - much further north! The size of the ship always amazes me - to have explored so broadly in something so small is mind-blowing!
Happy travels!
Wow, questa è un fantastico antico veliero !!!!
Magnifico !
Buona giornata :)
Soon you must on board - there must be hundreds of photos waiting for you :-D
The picture is brilliant!
Wonderful shot with history past and present. Looking at the diminutive size of that ship makes you realise how brave those explorers were.
I love this kind of stuff -- a painless way to learn history. Beautiful photo too!
Very nice composition.
Absolutely briliant photo, you should enter it in competitions.
I went on it in Brisbane once.
It's shame they don't mention its origins any more. Alan Bond conceived the idea, commissioned, payed for & oversee'd the construction, then presented it to the Aust people as a Bicentenial gift. Now we see him as a 'decedent western bourgeois capitalist pig' and he's been whitewashed from history. Shame
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