“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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

It contains over 200 specimens, “including an extinct species and several believed to have been sent back from Captain [James] Cook’s ill-fated third voyage.” By the mid-1770s, Cook had ...

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With the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's voyage to Australia, it is time to brush up on the history of our nation's most famous naval explorer. Many European voyages had previously ...