turning points:
- after inheriting his family's fortune in the early 1760s he chose to pursue his passion to the full
- In 1766 he travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador to collect plants, animals and rocks and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year..
- When the Royal Society was successful in initiating Captain Cook's 1768 expedition to Tahiti for astronomical observations, Banks obtained permission from the Admiralty to join the venture.
Achievements:
- He was knighted in 1781
- He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766
- His major landfalls on the eastern coast of Australia were at Botany Bay (28 April - 5 May 1770) and at the Endeavour River (17 June - 3 August)
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