The transit of Venus. Captain Orde Brown's party ascending the heights near Cairo. The 1874 transit of Venus took place on December 9, 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC). There were five official British expeditions or observation sites. One expedition travelled to Hawaii, with two others sent to the Kerguelen Archipelago in the far southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, and Rodrigues, an island further north in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius.

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English Expedition, Transit of Venus, 1874

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