Endeavour:
Eight days in Kamay
Learning and teaching resource
Learning and teaching resource
‘Let no one say the past is dead.
‘Let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within.’
The past is all about us and within.’
opening lines of ‘The Past’ by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
‘… Indigenous people have not lost from our minds the history of our nation, not only its deep past of thousands of years but also the events on that day 250 years ago …’
‘… Indigenous people have not lost from our minds the history of our nation, not only its deep past of thousands of years but also the events on that day 250 years ago …’
Filmmaker and Arrernte/Kalkadoon woman Rachel Perkins: Boyer lecture 1, 2019 ‘The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement’ discussing the day the Endeavour dropped anchor in Kamay Botany Bay.
In 1770, the English vessel HMB Endeavour spent eight days in Kamay Botany Bay - the first encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of the east coast of this continent.
Here you will find:
- ways to explore Aboriginal knowledge and histories highlighted alongside European perspectives through diverse K-11 student-centred learning activities
- links to videos, historic documents, images and other material from institutions and collections worldwide.
Explore:
- stories from before this first contact and the eight days in Kamay
- learning activities by year or topic.
ABC iview, in collaboration with the National Museum of Australia's exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the arrival of HMB Endeavour, has produced This Place: View from the Shore focusing on the history and culture of Aboriginal communities along the continent's east coast. The transcript is available in the teacher notes.Note: Kamay is sometimes spelt Gamay.
Sketch of Botany Bay in New South Wales latitude 34°00'S 1770. Facsimiles of charts, to accompany Volume 1, part 1. Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1893National Library Australia | Out of copyright