Conceived during the bicentenary of Cook’s discovery of the east coast of Australia, Endeavour Hills narrowly missed being called Piney Ridge or Pine Hills and was named in honour of James Cook and the crew and scientists aboard HMS Endeavour. Endeavour Hills was proclaimed as a suburb on 28 October 1974. Consequently, many streets in… Read More
Sydney Parkinson Reserve
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sydney Parkinson was employed by Sir Joseph Banks to make water-colour drawings of specimens and to sketch birds and animals on the Endeavour’s 1768-1771 voyage. He was a very talented natural history artist. So talented in fact, that during this voyage he drew 94 specimens collected at Botany Bay in just fourteen days. Sydney… Read More
Charles Green Reserve
January 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Born in 1735 in Yorkshire, England, Charles Green was the astronomer aboard the Endeavour. Together with James Cook, he observed the transit of Venus on the 3 June 1769 at Tahiti – the Endeavour’s first voyage. The Endeavour left Tahiti on 13 July 1969 for New Zealand, the east coast of Australia including the… Read More
Cranbourne Street Signage
October 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Bushranger Cluster: Cranbourne East see separate page Singers Cluster: Cranbourne East A small group of streets in Cranbourne East remembers Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra. Surveyed: 17 Jan 2017 by Lynne Joseph Banks Crescent Naturalist/Botanist aboard James Cook’s Endeavour. Surveyed: 20 Jun 2012 by Rex Cyril Beechey Lane Cyril Lewis Beechey was born in 1911. He loved… Read More