oce (version 0.9-13)

endeavour: Cook's Endeavour cruise track

Description

Time, longitude, and latitude for the H.M.S. Endeavour cruise, 1768-1771

Usage

data(endeavour)

source

The data were extracted from an XML file contained within a zipfile provided at the Australian government website http://data.gov.au/dataset/journal-of-the-h-m-s-endeavour-1768-1771/. (The world would be a better place if other governments similarly archived data of this sort.)

Examples

library(oce)
data(coastlineWorld)
data(endeavour)
mapPlot(coastlineWorld, type='l', proj='mollweide', orientation=c(90, -100, 0))
mapPoints(endeavour$longitude, endeavour$latitude, pch=20, col='red')