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
Air Tahiti Air Tahiti Air Tahiti is a French airline company which operates in French Polynesia, France. Its principal base is Faa'a International Airport. Air Tahiti covers a network of 47 islands in French Polynesia and Cook Islands. Society Islands Tuamotu Archipelago East Tuamotu-Gambier archipelago Marquesas archipelago Austral archipelago Marquesas archipelago Tuamotu archipelago As of September 2018, the Air Tahiti fleet consists of: The story of Air Tahiti is closely linked to the history of aviation in Polynesia. Far away from continents, Polynesia was late in developing air routes. It was only during the Second World War that aviation took off in