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water transport: fighting vessel: canoe, war
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Death of Captain James Cook, 1779
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The Art and Science of Exploration, 1768-80
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Australian Landscape Touring Exhibition
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'The Kongouro from New Holland' (Kangaroo) (Painting)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 56 Crotalaria Calycina (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 80 Vigna Vexillata (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 93 Acacia Holosericea (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 1 Dillenia Alata (Print)
'[Cascade Cove] Dusky Bay' (Painting)
'A View of the Cape of Good Hope, Taken on the Spot, from on Board the 'Resolution', Capt Cooke' (Painting)
A Cascade in the Tuauru Valley, Tahiti (Painting)
Waterfall in Dusky Bay with a Maori canoe (Painting)
Waterfall in Dusky Bay with a Maori canoe (Painting)
'A View of the Island of New Caledonia in the South' (Painting)
Captain James Cook, 1728-79 (Painting)
'View of Resolution [Vaitahu] Bay in the Marquesas' (Painting)
View from Point Venus, Island of Otaheite [Tahiti] (Painting)
'A Party from His Majesty’s ships Resolution & Discovery Shooting sea-horses, Latitude 71 North, 1778' (Painting)
'View of the Islands of Otaha [Taaha] and Bola Bola [Bora Bora] with Part of the Island of Ulietea [Raiatea]' (Painting)
'A View taken in the bay of Oaite Peha [Vaitepiha] Otaheite [Tahiti]' ('Tahiti Revisited') (Painting)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 97 Parinari Nonda (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 76 Mucuna Gigantea (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 75 Erythrina Vespertilio (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 16 Polygala Rhinanthoides (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 286 Banksia Dentata (Print)
Banks' Florilegium Plate 47 Distichostemon Hispidulus (Print)
Review of the war galleys at Tahiti ['The Fleet of Otaheite assembled at Oparee'] (Painting)
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