“He comes across as very much a humanitarian.” Map showing the three voyages of Captain Cook, with the first version in red, second in green, and third in blue. The route of Cook's crew ...

The three major voyages of discovery of Captain James Cook provided his European ... 5,000 miles of previously unknown coastline on the map. Cook sailed first to Tahiti to carry out those ...

Captain James Cook set out on a voyage across the Pacific 250 years ago ... combined with the unreliability of maps, meant no one was sure whether the Southern Continent existed or had been ...

The voyages of Captain James Cook This is the history that the British ... charting islands which had not been accurately marked on European maps before and crossing the Antarctic circle three ...

Series editor John Farren writes: In the late 18th century Captain James Cook led three great voyages of discovery ... he would add one third to the map of the known world. Vanessa Collingridge ...

THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain ... map of Europe’s power. Retracing parts of his previous voyages while chauffeuring Mai, Cook ...

The voyages of Captain James Cook delivered new and exciting scientific and geographical discoveries to the western world. "Natural Curiosities", such as rocks, plants and animals were obviously ...

The wreck of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour ... to land on Australia’s east coast, map New Zealand and circumnavigate the globe during his 1768-1771 voyage – in the ship’s later years ...

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