We had a long discussion about Captain James Cook's three voyages, chartering the coast of New Zealand and 'discovering' the mythical land of Australia.
The children made some Aboriginal dot paintings.
Panda Girl and The Boy made the Great Barrier Reef where Cook was shipwrecked.
And Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl spent some time investigating the causes and symptoms of scurvy and wrote an essay on whether Cook's territorial discoveries were more or less important in maritime history than his elimination of scurvy in his sailors.
