Adventure

…and a consort ship, the Adventure. He found no trace of Terra Australis, though he sailed beyond latitude 70° S in the Antarctic, but he successfully completed the first west–east circumnavigation in high latitudes, charted Tonga and Easter Island during the winters, and discovered New Caledonia in the Pacific and…

As commander of the Adventure, he took part in Capt. James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific (1771–75). Sailing eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, the Adventure became separated from Cook’s vessel, the Resolution, on Feb. 8, 1773. Furneaux then continued into Australian waters and explored and charted…