Isaac Smith (Royal Navy officer)

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Isaac Smith was a Royal Navy admiral.

Smith was a cousin of Captain James Cook's wife Elizabeth and as a young man was master's mate aboard the Endeavour on Cook's voyage to Tahiti, New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. The tradition in Cook's family, retold with pride, was that at Botany Bay on 28 April 1770 Smith was the first to go ashore, Cook telling him "Now then, Isaac, you shall go first", or similar,[1] though this is not recorded in Cook's journal.[2]

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  1. ^ Project Gutenberg Australia hosts a free eBook of A Short History of Australia; note that copyright may apply in countries other than Australia - Zip file, Text file, HTML file
  2. ^ Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, available at Project Gutenberg.
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