IDNO

T.149776.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 60. Tahiti. Koda. 35mm.
11. memorial plaque to Wallis, Point Venus." [Poignant's manuscript]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; French Polynesia; Society Islands; Tahiti

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.149774.RPT - T.149797.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/46.

Place: Point Venus is a peninsula on the north coast of Tahiti, and is where Captain James Cook anchored to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus from the South Pacific. Samuel Wallis, whose stone memorial is shown here, was a British naval officer who made the first recorded visit by a European navigator to Tahiti on the HMS Dolphin in 1767. Following his return to England, Wallis informed James Cook about Tahiti, who was due to depart shortly for the Pacific, and some of the crew from the Dolphin sailed with Cook. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wallis, CO 22/06/2021]