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Captain James Cook FRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
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Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMB Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown in 1770, naming it New South Wales. In his journal, he wrote: 'so far as we know [it] doth not produce any one thing that can become an Article in trade to invite Europeans to fix a settlement upon it'.
2020 marks the two-hundred-and-fifty-year anniversary of James Cook’s epic voyage along the east coast of Australia in 1770. The Australian nation will be torn between Anglo celebrations and Aboriginal mourning over James Cook’s so-called discovery of Australia.
James Cook ( Marton, 27 de outubro jul. / 7 de novembro de 1728 greg. — Kealakekua, 14 de fevereiro de 1779) foi um explorador, navegador e cartógrafo inglês tendo depois alçado a patente de capitão na Marinha Real Britânica. Cook foi o primeiro a mapear Terra Nova antes de fazer três viagens para o Oceano Pacífico durante a qual ele ...
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5 de mai. de 2021 · James Cook, foi o primeiro europeu a contactar com os habitantes das remotas ilhas da Oceânia. Depois das suas viagens, foi possível estabelecer com exactidão a localização da Austrália, Nova Zelândia, Hawai e diversas ilhas do Pacífico. Actualizado a 5 de Maio de 2021, 11:06. Partilhar.
26 de abr. de 2024 · James Cook was a British naval captain, navigator, and explorer who sailed the seaways and coasts of Canada and conducted three expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (1768–71, 1772–75, and 1776–79), ranging from the Antarctic ice fields to the Bering Strait and from the coasts of North America to Australia and New Zealand.
James Cook, one of the greatest navigators, explorers and cartographers of the Age of Enlightenment, had humble beginnings as a farm boy. Born on 27 October 1728 to a local Yorkshire lass and a Scottish immigrant labourer, Cook was a bright, hardworking student.
