Maritime Law

"Discusses Indigenous associations with the sea, giving examples from Umpila, Meriam, Yolngu and Bardi peoples; relationship with commercial fishing industry; considers the legal question of whether the common law recognises marine interests in the same way it recognises native title interests, citing case law from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; briefly outlines constitutional history of acquisition of sovereignty of offshore areas; discusses proof of Indigenous sea rights and examines characterisation, scope, extinguishment and regulation of Indigenous sea rights; discusses whether a f

"While Captain James Cook's South Pacific voyages have been extensively studied, much less attention has been paid to his representation of the Pacific Northwest. In Constructing Colonial Discourse, Noel Elizabeth Currie focuses on the month Cook spent at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1778 during his third Pacific voyage. Comparing the official 1784 edition of that voyage with Cook's journal account (made available in the scholarly edition prepared by New Zealand scholar J.C.