Captain Cook Boomerang for Auction
Published August 20th, 2008
The Boomerang once belonging to Captain Cook is being auctioned by Christie’s in their Exploration and Travel sale on September 25. It is expected to fetch about £60,000.
Cook aquired it when he became the first European to make contact with eastern Australia in 1770.
The Aboriginal weapon formed part of the estate of Cook’s widow Elizabeth and after two centuries was passed to its current owner as an inheritance. It has been out of the public view for the whole of the intervening 200 years.
Cook was killed on February 14, 1779 when he went ashore at Kealakekua Beach in Hawaii to recover a stolen boat.
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