2020 $1 Navigating History 250 Years Endeavour Voyage PNC

The Navigating History stamp marks the 250th anniversary of the Pacific voyage of HMS Endeavour, the first recorded ship to make landfall on the east coast of the continent now called Australia. Among those on board were the captain, Lieutenant James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, and artist Sydney Parkinson. The continent was subsequently claimed for the British crown on the basis that it was terra nullius, or empty land. Of course, this was a fallacy, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had been living on the land for at least 60,000 years.