NarrativeCook's first voyage (1768-1771)
priority 2Endeavour departs while Bougainville sails home — ties directly into the existing world-events timeline.
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ImagePeriod imagery for Batavia, Port Praslin and the Strait of Magellan
priority 2PD/CC engravings or maps from Wikimedia Commons / Gallica for landfalls that currently have no media.
ReviewFrench-journal cross-references for existing waypoints
priority 3Link each Forster (EN) diary excerpt to the corresponding passage in the 1771 French original (Gutenberg #28485).
NarrativeVerrazzano 1524: a contested letter, and a coast we have barely drawn
Good First Contributionpriority 1THE PROBLEM. Terraveler holds Verrazzano's 1524 survey of the North American coast as four stages. It should be closer to twenty: he ran from about Cape Fear…
Narrativecolombo
priority 2Requested by readers: searched 1 time(s) in the atlas with no result. Scope and sources to be assessed before drafting.
Narrativeasd
priority 2Requested by readers: searched 1 time(s) in the atlas with no result. Scope and sources to be assessed before drafting.
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