james cook

     

Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator an cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

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  • In 1768 at age 39 this captain left England on his first voyage to the South Seas
  • Looking for a NW Passage, sandwiched between a rock & a Hawaiian hard place:The Resolution
  • This captain set out on his third voyage in 1776, one from which he'd never return
  • In the 1770s this British sea captain circled Antarctica but ice packs kept him from sighting land
  • In 1768 he led an expedition to Tahiti, where astronomers studied the transit of Venus across the sun
  • ...who was the commander of the Royal Society's 1768 expedition to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus
  • In the 1770s this British sea captain received the Copley Medal for his efforts in preventing scurvy
  • In 1769 this Brit found Tahiti by sailing west until he ran into it

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