South Seas is an online reference guide to Captain James Cook's momentous first Pacific voyage of discovery (1768-1771). As well as providing the full text of Cook's journal and other important contemporary accounts of the voyage, it brings together and establishes relationships between information from many sources and in different forms (for instance, text, maps, and pictures) so that Cook's voyage can be understood within the context of 18th-century Pacific exploration and cross-cultural encounters.