Endeavour Strait

Geographical location

As Endeavour Street [ ɪndɛvɐ ] refers to the southern part of the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea, specifically the strait between Cape York and the Prince of Wales Island. She was discovered already by Luiz Vaez de Torres, 1606, the Torres Strait Islands discovered and drove by the later Endeavour Street in the Arafura Sea. It was named in 1770 by James Cook's HMS Endeavour. The narrow passage with numerous reefs and strong currents has long been charted poorly and therefore many ships were fatal. William Bligh made ​​another sketch maps as he drove on the Bounty in the dinghy to Timor after the mutiny. Only towards the end of the 19th century it was exactly measured by John McLean ( 1838-1907 ).

The most famous wreck, which is associated with the Endeavour Street is probably the HMS Pandora, which ran aground in the launching of Endeavour Street on the Great Barrier Reef August 29, 1791 and sank 35 man lost, including four of the caught in Tahiti crew members of the Bounty.

• Torres Strait
• Strait in Australia
• Strait ( Australasian Mediterranean)
• Arafura Sea
• Coral Sea
• Waters in Queensland