
The following account of the discovery of Tahiti on J une 19, 1767 , is based on the complete journal of George Robertson, Master on board the H.M.S. DOLPHIN, with excellent explanatory foreword and editing by Hugh Carrington, and the journal of Captain Wallis as re-written by John Hawkesworth in 1773. TAHITI AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC Reef Magazine Vol 2, No. 3, 1967 Special Issue - 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tahiti "Wallis Discovers Tahiti" by Tracy Laignelot 30 Pages: 21-27, 34, 37-38 Reef [Magazine], Vol 2. No. 3, 1967 - Special Issue 200th Anniversary of the Discovery of Tahiti Publications Reef, S.A.R.L., B.P. 966, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia October 2020: This account was researched and written in Tahiti by Tracy Laignelot in the 1960s when she lived on the island for close to 9 years. Her name is now Tracy Novinger and she is the author of 3 books p...