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Captain James Cook

NOUN
  1. English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

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  • The barque Endeavour (the replica of Captain James Cook's ship) arrived in July and then there was The Big Day Out, a port open day, a month or so later.
  • It was from here that Captain James Cook, a local lad, set sail around the globe, inflaming every schoolboy's passion for adventure with his daring exploits.
  • Captain James Cook also landed at La France Australe on Christmas Eve 1776.
  • Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
  • In 1773, English navigator and explorer Captain James Cook landed two merino sheep in the Marlborough Sounds, in the north of the South Island.
  • Although the RNZN did not exist as a separate military force until 1941, New Zealand's naval maritime history stretches back to 1769, when Captain James Cook first sighted Young Nick's Head near Gisborne. ACT New Zealand -
  • Captain James Cook, the legendary British navigator and explorer, recorded the transit of Venus from Tahiti in 1769.
  • When the British explorer Captain James Cook landed at Botany Bay, he claimed the whole of the east coast of Australia for Britain.
  • Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
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