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Matavai Venus
Captain James Cook viewed the Transit Of Venus from Observation Point In Matavai Bay Tahiti In 1769.
He was sent by the Royal Society From England to conduct the scientific obervation.
This artwork by Darryl Robertson, a ceramic is made from porcelain like fine white clay remembering this event.Along with the second part of the voyage.
It was created in 2004 for the Transit of Venus exhibition ,at Milford Gallery in New Zealand and is now in the
Captain James Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby England.
This Museum is now in what was Cooks home as a young training seaman.
The second part of The Cook voyage was to look for the great southern lands (Terra Australis Incognita )that were believed to be in the Southern Pacific ocean ....somewhere.
During this long voyage he charted the New Zealand coastline with a great deal of detail. His crew met and recorded the Maori people they met, the plants, animals and land in his diaries as he travelled slowly around the coasts.
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