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EFS class

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Turning points and achievements Banks, Joseph, Sir

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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