Griffin Rowe examines how Cook's Pacific voyages transformed Indigenous knowledge into European possession through cartography, botanical collecting, and ethnographic documentation. Exploring whose knowledge was preserved and whose erased, this episode questions scientific discovery's neutrality and reveals how charts, pressed flowers, and illustrations became tools of colonial power.

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