| Introduction | 12 |
Chapter 1 | The Pacific Islands and Their People | 14 |
| Human Settlers | |
| The European Record | |
| Pacific Settlement: Deliberate or Accidental? | |
| Cosmology | |
| Indigenous Maps | |
| Pacific Regions | |
Chapter 2 | Mariners, Mapmakers, and the Great Ocean | 26 |
| Early Cartographic Traces | |
| The Discovery of America Defines the Pacific | |
| Two Patterns of Early Pacific Mapping | |
| On the Eve of Magellan | |
| The Pacific's East-West Breadth | |
| The Pacific's North-South Limits | |
| Terra Australis and Other Enticements | |
Chapter 3 | The Pacific Evolves after Magellan | 48 |
| Medieval Lore Mixes with New Discoveries | |
Chapter 4 | In the Wake of the Solomon Islands | 60 |
| The Solomons on Printed Maps | |
| Francis Drake's Circumnavigation | |
| The Marquesas: Mendana's Second Expedition | |
| Quiros and Torres | |
Chapter 5 | Earliest Mapping of Australia and New Zealand | 78 |
| Mapping the Dutch Discovery of Australia | |
| The "Pacific" Land of Beach | |
| Jacob Le Maire | |
| Abel Tasman | |
Chapter 6 | The Age of Enlightenment | 106 |
| The English Map Trade | |
| Scientists and Buccaneers | |
| Literary Pacific Landscapes | |
| Further Searches for Terra Australis | |
| The European Discovery of Easter Island and Samoa | |
| A Renaissance of English Voyages | |
| Bougainville Follows the English Lead | |
| Thomas Forrest in the Western Pacific | |
Chapter 7 | The Three Voyages of James Cook | 128 |
| The First Voyage | |
| The Second Voyage | |
| The Third Voyage | |
Chapter 8 | The Discovery of Tahiti and Hawaii | 140 |
| Tahiti and the Mapping of the Cosmos | |
| The Tahitian Navigator, Tupaia | |
| Later Explorers and Missionaries Map Tahiti | |
| The European Discovery of Tahiti | |
| Do Maps Record Hawaii before Cook? | |
| Missionaries and the Mapping of Hawaii | |
Chapter 9 | The Eighteenth Century after Cook | 168 |
| La Perouse | |
| The Rediscovery of the Solomon Islands | |
| William Bligh | |
Chapter 10 | Micronesia, the Elusive Isles | 178 |
| Missionaries Question Islanders to Construct Maps | |
| The Methodical Mapping of Micronesia | |
Chapter 11 | Surveyors, Whalers, and Missionaries | 194 |
| The Marquesas | |
| The London Missionary Society | |
| Russian Expeditions Combine Science and Commerce | |
| The French Expeditions | |
| Mapping below the Surface | |
| The United States Exploring Expedition | |
| Thematic and Oceanographic Mapping | |
| Bibliography | 218 |
| Index | 220 |