Endeavour strikes the Great Barrier Reef
1770 · Event
The Endeavour runs aground on the reef; jettisoning guns and ballast, the crew float her off and beach her for seven weeks' repairs at the Endeavour River, where Banks records the word 'kangaroo'.
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