With news just in that part of Captain Cook's ship HMS Endeavour, later named Lord Sandwich, has been found scuttled in America , a roving correspondent today sent this panoramic view of Cooktown, North Queensland , where the vessel pulled in for panel beating after striking the Great Barrier Reef in 1770 , coming ashore at the mouth of what is now known as Endeavour River .
Situated 2000 kilometres north of Brisbane, Cooktown started as a supply port for the Palmer River goldfields in 1873, now has a population about 2500.
With funding from the late Alan Bond, work began on the replica of the bark , HMS Endeavour , ran into financial problems, as did Bond , but was completed and went on display, below , at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney.
The James Cook University Eddie Koiki Mabo Library in Townsville sports a model of HMS Endeavour in a large upstairs glass showcase.
Relics including the six cannon jettisoned by the vessel when it became stuck on the reef were recovered in 1969 by a research team from the American Academy of Natural Sciences . A cannon and an anchor went on display at the James Cook Museum , Cooktown . Endeavour was commemorated in numerous ways - on a 50 cent New Zealand coin and the name of Space Shuttle.
