The final resting place of HMS Endeavour – the first European ship to reach the east coast of Australia – has been confirmed by the Australian National Maritime Museum.

In a new report , 26 years of historical and archaeological research has concluded that the shipwreck is located at a site called RI 2394, located on the muddy seabed of Newport Harbor in Rhode Island, USA.

In 1768, HMS Endeavour set sail from England under the command of Captain James Cook on a groundbreaking voyage. It was originally tasked with observing the transit of Venus in Tahiti, but it also had the objective of documenting "undiscovered southern land". Cook and his crew charted the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia for the first time, marking a major milestone in the European colonization of the

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