📅 3 June 1769
Cook and Green recorded the transit from Tahiti during an international observing campaign.
📅 3 June 1769
European expedition members observed from an island with its own navigational and celestial knowledge traditions.
📅 3 June 1769
Cook and Green's drawings helped document the event and the difficulty of timing its edge.
📅 3 June 1769
Observations from Tahiti were compared with observations elsewhere to estimate the scale of the solar system.
