James Cook’s Killora 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' medal, Peter Lane

Article from Vol 42 no 4, Nov 2020

James Cook’s Killora 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' medal, Peter Lane

Abstract:

Lieutenant James Cook took various gifts on his voyages of discovery, to distribute to Indigenous people whom he might encounter. Peter Lane draws attention to the only example of one of Cook’s medals found in Australia, a memento of friendly contact between the European explorers and Indigenous Tasmanians in either 1773 or 1777.

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The Australiana Society acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.