1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti while voyaging to (unsuccessfully) observe the 1761 Transit in Sumatra. Using the solar parallax values obtained from the 1769 transit, Hornsby wrote in "Philosophical Transitions" December 1771 that "the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (is) 93,726,900 English miles." The radar-based value used today for the astronomical unit is . This is only a difference of eight-tenths of one percent. Considering what these astronomers had to work with, their results were "absolutely remarkable". 1769 Transit of Venus observed from Tahiti On June 3, 1769, British navigator Captain James Cook, British naturalist Joseph Banks, British astronomer Charles Green and
Miss Tahiti Miss Tahiti Miss Tahiti is a long-standing beauty contest competition which awards prizes to young women contestants from Tahiti to Miss France as territory. It makes it possible to compete at some International pageants in order to represent the island as a territory. The current Miss Tahiti is Vaimalama Chaves who was crowned on June 23, 2018 in Papeete. Miss Tahiti pageant has been known since 1960 before joining Miss France contest in 1986. Two other pageants held each year on Tahiti are "Miss Dragon" (ambassadress of the Chinese community's beauty and culture), as well as "Miss Heiva" (best representative