Editing HMS Endeavour (section)

====Pacific exploration====
The transit observed, ''Endeavour'' departed Tahiti on 13 July and headed northwest to allow Cook to survey and name the [[Society Islands]].<ref name="Rigby34">Rigby and van der Merwe 2002, p. 34</ref> Landfall was made at Huahine, Raiatea and Borabora, providing opportunities for Cook to claim each of them as British territories. An attempt to land the pinnace on the [[Austral Islands|Austral Island]] of [[Rurutu (Austral Islands)|Rurutu]] was thwarted by rough surf and the rocky shoreline.<ref>Hough 1995, pp. 133–134</ref> On 15 August, ''Endeavour'' finally turned south to explore the open ocean for ''Terra Australis Incognita''.<ref name="Rigby34"/>

In October 1769, ''Endeavour'' reached the coastline of New Zealand, becoming the first European vessel to do so since [[Abel Tasman]]'s ''Heemskerck'' in 1642.<ref name="Rigby34"/> Unfamiliar with such ships, the [[Māori people]] at Cook's first landing point in [[Poverty Bay]] thought the ship was a floating island, or a gigantic bird from their mythical homeland of [[Hawaiki]].<ref name="ANMM584">{{cite web |title=HMB ''Endeavour'' replica – Cook and Endeavour: Endeavour's People |publisher=Australian National Maritime Museum |year=2008 |url=http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=584 |access-date=28 August 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080720095453/http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=584 |archive-date = 20 July 2008}}</ref> ''Endeavour'' spent the next six months sailing close to shore,<ref name="Courier1878"/> while Cook mapped the coastline and concluded that New Zealand comprised two large islands and was not the hoped-for ''Terra Australis''. In March 1770, the longboat from ''Endeavour'' carried Cook ashore to allow him to formally proclaim British sovereignty over New Zealand.<ref name="Courier1878"/> On his return, ''Endeavour'' resumed her voyage westward, her crew sighting the east coast of Australia on 19 April.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1968|p=299}} On 29 April, she became the first European vessel to make landfall on the east coast of Australia, when Cook landed one of the ship's boats on the southern shore of what is now known as [[Botany Bay]], [[New South Wales]].<ref>Hough 1995, pp. 168–170</ref>
[[Image:Endeavour track chart.jpg|center|thumb|600px|alt=Map: A line runs from Rio de Janeiro in South America, generally southward to Cape Horn and then west and northwest through the south Pacific Ocean to Tahiti and the Society Islands. The line then moves south and west to New Zealand, west to the Australian coast and north to Cape York.|An 1893 chart showing ''Endeavour''{{'s}} track]]