Description:
At the Captain Cook Memorial Caravan Park at 786 Adventure Bay Road, is a diminutive pillar of stones cemented together. It bears a small metal plate bearing a painted message to the effect that the Governor of Tasmania unveiled the monument as part of the bicentenary celebrations of Cook’s Endeavour voyage up the east coast of mainland Australia in 1770.
History:
Originally unveiled in 1977, this plaque was located by a member of the Bruny Island Historical Society, after contacting the Caravan Park owner in April 2018. They discovered the plaque standing on the side of the Park nearly hidden by an old tree stump, and described it as old and hand-made of aluminium.
Inscription:
Plaque:
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK’S
MEMORIAL CARAVAN PARK
COMMEMORATING THE VISIT OF THE
DISCOVERER OF NEW SOUTH WALES
TO ADVENTURE BAY
JANUARY 26th – JANUARY 30th 1777
WITH TWO SHIPS
THE RESOLUTION & THE DISCOVERY
THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY
H.E. THE GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA
SIR STANLEY BURBURY, K.B.E.
30TH JANUARY 1977
GPS Co-ordinates: -43.365632, 147.334732
References:
Endeavour Lines, page 11, no. 32 (Apr 1999)
The Bruny Island Historical Society
Website: https://captaincookpark.com/home