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| 1769 |
| | | Captain Cook reaches New Zealand and sets off to chart its entire coastline | |
|  | Hodges Dusky Bay, New Zealand (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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| 1770 |
| | | Captain Cook reaches the mainland of Australia, at a place which he names Botany Bay, and continues up the eastern coast | |
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| 1772 |
| | | Captain Cook sets off, in HMS Resolution, on his second voyage to the southern hemisphere | |
|  | Mourner's costume from Tahiti
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
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| c. 1775 |
| | | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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| 1779 |
| | | British explorer Captain James Cook is killed in a skirmish with natives in Hawaii over a stolen boat | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie explores by canoe from central Canada through the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America | |
|  | Whalebone club brought back by Vancouver
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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| 1792 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific coast of Canada, becoming the first known person to cross the north American continent | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association | |
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| 1798 |
| | | British explorer George Bass sails round Tasmania in an open whaleboat, discovering the strait which now bears his name | |
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