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49: 1543: 867: 250: 56: 303:"Lieutenant James Cook, R.N. Of the Endeavour, First Sighted Australia Near This Point, Which He Named Point Hicks After Lieutenant Zachary Hicks Who First Saw the Land. April 19th (Ship's Log Date). April 20th (Calendar Date). 1770." On the seaward side of the monument is a plaque listing the "Ship's Company of H.M. Bark Endeavour April 20th 1770". 227:) to establish whether or not it formed part of the presumed southern continent. However, he was forced to maintain a more northerly course owing to prevailing gales, and sailed on until 19 April 1770, when land was sighted at 6 a.m. Two hours later, Cook made a further observation of land and named it Point Hicks. Cook recorded the event thus: 243:
cloud bank, a compass error, or a faulty observation. Margaret Cameron-Ash, however, claims that Cook deliberately falsified his charts and coordinates in order to hide the existence of Bass Strait for reasons of military and colonial policy. Those claims have been vigorously challenged as lacking in any sound evidence.
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Cook's manuscript chart of Australia's east coast, starts at a point he named Point Hicks and gave its coordinates as 38°0'S and 148°53'E. However,the coordinates recorded are several miles off-shore, in 50 fathoms (91 m) of water. It has been variously suggested that Cook was deceived by a
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sailed past the area in 1798–99 and again in 1802–03, the coastal area near Point Hicks was always out of Flinders' visual range. When drawing his chart, Flinders relied on Bass's observations, thus omitting Point Hicks. The name Point Hicks was still being used on some maps up until 1840.
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S I judged to lay in the Latitude of 38°..0' S° and in the Longitude of 211°..07' W from the Meridian of Greenwich. I have named it Point Hicks, because Lieut Hicks was the first who discover'd this land.
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Cook calculated that Van Diemen's Land ought to lie due south of their position, but having found the coastline trending to the south-west, recorded his doubt that this landmass was connected to it.
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Despite the use of the name Cape Everard to designate the promontory, Cook's original name of Point Hicks was recorded on an
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Nevertheless, it is likely that Cook's "Point of land" was not today's Point Hicks, and lies somewhat to the south-west.
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After charting New Zealand during his first voyage of discovery, Cook set a course westwards, intending to strike for
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Cook's name, Point Hicks, was officially established as the name of the cape as part of the commemoration of the
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George Douglas Smythe. If he coined the name, then, according to one theory, he may have been referring to
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Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768–71
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https://www.captaincooksociety.com/cooks-life/places/cook-s-point-hicks-error-that-just-won-t-go-away
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of the Endeavour who, in April 1770, first saw land presumed to be the east coast of New Holland.
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sailed past the area in an open whale-boat and was unable to identify the point. Although
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The plaque on the landward side of the obelisk at Point Hicks, Victoria, Australia.
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Lipscombe, Trevor (2015) "Cook's Point Hicks: Error That Just Won't Go Away" in
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Mawer, GA (2018). "Lying for the admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage ".
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Scott, Ernest (1912). "English and French Navigators on the Victorian Coast".
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Map by The Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge published in 1840
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by the Captain Cook Society, volume 38, number 2, pages 26–32. Online at,
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The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Point Hicks are the
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Captain Cook's Epic Voyage: the strange quest for a missing continent
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proclaimed the new name in a ceremony at the point on 20 April 1970.
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the Southermost Point of land we had in sight which bore from us W
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in 1843. It was presumed he named it after fellow naval officer
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The first use of the name Cape Everard has been attributed to
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Lipscombe, Trevor (2020). "Cook Conspiracy at Point Hicks?".
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In the 1930s, the Australian businessman and philanthropist,
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Liscombe, Trevor (2014). "Point Hicks – The clouded facts".
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Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage
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National Library of Australia, South Seas Collection
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Index

Cape
Point Hicks is located in Victoria
Victoria
37°48′11″S 149°16′32″E / 37.80306°S 149.27556°E / -37.80306; 149.27556
South East Corner
IBRA
Victoria
headland
East Gippsland
Victoria
Croajingolong National Park
Point Hicks Lighthouse
Tasman Sea
Australian Aboriginal
Bidawal
Gunaikurnai
Europeans
HMS Endeavour
first voyage of James Cook
Lieutenant Zachary Hicks
Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
Photo of plaque
George Bass
Matthew Flinders
hydrographer
John Lort Stokes
James Everard Home
surveyor
William Everard

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