Captain james cook

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Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

British colonizer Captain James Cook was killed by Indigenous Hawaiians after an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap their Chief Kalaniʻōpuʻu.

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Captain Cook - 1958

Captain James Cook discovered the East Coast of Australia in 1770, but the last sighting of the ship is thought to be in 1778

On 26 August 1768, Captain James Cook departed from Plymouth on the HMS Endeavour. With him were 94 men, copious supplies, and secret instructions to locate the fabled southern continent known as ‘terra australis incognita’. They did not find the unknown continent, but they did arrive in Aotearoa New Zealand. His name, and that of the ship, has dominated the story of European exploration of Aotearoa New Zealand ever since. The Endeavour was a relatively small vessel of 368 tons, just 32…

The explorer traveled to Tahiti under the auspices of science 250 years ago, but his secret orders were to continue Britain’s colonial project

Australians and Polynesians