<P> Cook continued northwards, charting along the coastline . He stopped at Bustard Head on 24 May 1770 . Cook and Banks and others went ashore . A mishap occurred when Endeavour ran aground on a shoal of the Great Barrier Reef, on 11 June 1770 . The ship was seriously damaged and his voyage was delayed almost seven weeks while repairs were carried out on the beach (near the docks of modern Cooktown, at the mouth of the Endeavour River). While there, Joseph Banks, Herman Spöring and Daniel Solander made their first major collections of Australian flora . The crew's encounters with the local Aboriginal people were mainly peaceable; from the group encountered here the name "kangaroo" entered the English language, coming from the local Guugu Yimidhirr word for a kind of Grey Kangaroo, gangurru (pronounced (ɡ̊aŋuru)). </P> <P> Once repairs were complete the voyage continued, eventually passing by the northernmost point of Cape York Peninsula and then sailing through Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, earlier navigated by Luis Váez de Torres in 1606 . Having rounded the Cape, Cook landed on Possession Island on 22 August, where he claimed the entire coastline he had just explored (later naming the region New South Wales) for the British Crown . </P> <P> In negotiating the Torres Strait past Cape York, Cook also put an end to the speculation that New Holland and New Guinea were part of the same land mass . </P> <P> At that point in the voyage Cook had lost not a single man to scurvy, a remarkable and practically unheard - of achievement in 18th - century long - distance seafaring . Adhering to Royal Navy policy introduced in 1747, Cook persuaded his men to eat foods such as citrus fruits and sauerkraut . At that time it was known that poor diet caused scurvy but not specifically that a vitamin C deficiency was the culprit . </P>

Where did the first fleet stop and why