Taking Command

S1, E2: Cook sets sail to find and claim the Great Southern Continent for Britain, with Polynesian priest Tupaia aboard. After a disastrous first encounter with New Zealand’s Maori, Tupaia helps ease tensions. Cook circumnavigates New Zealand, proving it’s not a continent, then lands in Botany Bay, facing challenges from Australia's flora, fauna, and Indigenous people, and the perilous Great Barrier Reef.