Moooooom, the archaeologists are fighting again :(
Craig Adderley via PexelsThe remains of the Endeavour, the lost ship that famed Captain James Cook sailed on his first voyage to Australia, have been found, the Australian National Maritime Museum announced at an event in Sydney on Thursday.
The Endeavour holds significance to Australians of British descent, because of its connection to Captain Cook. After Cook sailed the Endeavour to New Zealand and Australia from 1768 to 1771, the ship was sent back to England to be repaired and refitted into a naval transport ship. It was later renamed the Lord Sandwich, and purposefully sunk in the waters of Rhode Island in 1778.
Outside experts have also weighed in. Maritime archeologist and shipwreck investigator John McCarthy, who is not involved with any Endeavour projects, wrote inthat “the repeated headlines about the Endeavour may have made some of the project team wary about definitive claims.” At the same time, he writes, “there will also be sites that we cannot prove the identity of with absolute certainty, and we will be forced to make our best judgment call.
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