Cooktown Queensland Australia

Cook continues northwards, charting along the coastline and stopping at Bustard Head on May 24, 1770; Cook and Banks and others had gone ashore.

A mishap occurs when Endeavour runs aground on a shoal of the Great Barrier Reef, on June 11, 1770.

The ship is seriously damaged and his voyage was delayed almost seven weeks while repairs were carried out on the beach (near the docks of modern Cooktown, at the mouth of the Endeavour River).

While here, Banks, Spöring and Solander make their first major collections of Australian flora.

The crew's encounters with the local Aboriginal people are mainly peaceable; from the group encountered here the name "kangaroo" enters the English language, coming from the local Guugu Yimidhirr word for a kind of Grey Kangaroo, gangurru.