Ship fight: row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour
by Tory Shepherd and AAP from World news | The Guardian on (#5VQM4)
Rhode Island archaelogists denounce Australian National Maritime Museum announcement as premature' and driven by Australian emotions or politics'
A 22-year partnership between US and Australian researchers to identify James Cook's ship the Endeavour has descended into a row, after the Australian Maritime Museum announced the discovery.
The museum's chief executive, Kevin Sumption, announced on Thursday he was satisfied that a shipwreck in waters off Rhode Island in the US was the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia's maritime history".
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