‘Discovery’ and ‘Resolution’ called into Stromness in 1780 with 180 crewmen who were making their first British landfall after Cook had been killed in Hawaii during a four year voyage to find the northwest passage through the Bering straits.
Skaill House: dinner service, tea set, and spears from South Seas
Stromness Museum
spearhead from Balmanegarra Station noted as Arunta
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