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In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James Cook, HMS Endeavour and her crew set sail for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus - before opening sealed orders for a secret assignment.

Defrocked monk Gabriel de Foigny imagined Australia - then known only as the “southern land” - in a novel that has similarities with Thomas More’s Utopia.

He was half-right: Terra Australis Incognita – literally, the Unknown Southern Land, a place hypothesised since antiquity and added to Europe’s maps during the Renaissance – had long been ...