Return to England and Information Passed to Cook
- When
- May 1768
- Where
- Unspecified (Batavia, Cape of Good Hope, and England are named without a single occurrence locality)
- Part of
- Wallis Visits Tahiti
After the voyage, Wallis reached England in May 1768 and passed useful Pacific information to James Cook, though whether they met is unknown.
Wallis continued to Batavia, where many of the crew died from dysentery, then travelled via the Cape of Good Hope to England, arriving in May 1768. Following his return, he passed on useful information to James Cook, who was due to depart shortly for the Pacific, and some of the Dolphin's crew sailed with Cook. Although Cook carried an official report of Wallis's circumnavigation, it is not known whether the two met prior to Cook's departure in August 1768.
Sources
- Samuel Wallis Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-05
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.