Sources:

  • The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary
  • Alan Frost , Science For Political Purposes: The European Nations' Exploration of the Pacific Ocean 1764-1806
  • The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History
  • David Mackay, The Great Era of Pacific Exploration
  • G. A. Mawer Incognita: The Invention and Discovery of Terra AustralisThe Oxford Companion to British History
  • N. A. M. Rodger, The wooden world : an anatomy of the Georgian navy
  • O.H.K. Spate The Pacific Since Magellan, Volume I: The Spanish Lake and Volume III: Paradise Found and Lost; 
  • Avan Judd Stallard, Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent; 
  • The Times Atlas of World Exploration; 
  • Richard Walter (ed.) A Voyage Round The World
  • W.J.L. Wharton (Ed.) Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round The World Made In H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71 A Literal Transcription Of The Original Mss. With Notes And Introduction
  • Glyndwr Williams.  The expansion of Europe in the eighteenth century, overseas rivalry, discovery and exploitation
  • Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.
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