Theoretically, Matthew Flinders discovered the coastline of Victoria.
Captain James Cook went to New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific Islands and Hawaii just for his interest
James Cook charted the east coast of Australia.
Captain Cook explored the south Pacific including Australia, Hawaii, and New Zealand.
James Cook did not discover New Zealand, just as he did not discover Australia. New Zealand was discovered by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. Cook circumnavigated New Zealand in 1769. Cook's only discovery of previously unknown lands was Hawaii, which he named the Sandwich Islands.
Firstly, Captain Cook did not discover Australia.Secondly, Australia is not an island. It is a continent.The biggest island in the world is and was Greenland.
Captain James Cook went to New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific Islands and Hawaii just for his interest
Captain James Cook.
No, it was Captain Cook.
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James Cook charted the east coast of Australia.
It was Captain James Cook.
No. Captain Hook is a fictitious character from the book Peter Pan.Nor did Captain Cook discover Australia. To begin with James Cook was a Lieutenant, not a captain, when he charted the eastern coast of Austalia and claimed it for Great Britain. He did not discover Australia, as that honour goes to Dutch trader Willem Jansz in 1606.
Captain Cook explored the south Pacific including Australia, Hawaii, and New Zealand.
James Cook did not discover New Zealand, just as he did not discover Australia. New Zealand was discovered by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. Cook circumnavigated New Zealand in 1769. Cook's only discovery of previously unknown lands was Hawaii, which he named the Sandwich Islands.
Firstly, Captain Cook did not discover Australia.Secondly, Australia is not an island. It is a continent.The biggest island in the world is and was Greenland.
Captain James Cook did not discover any continent. In 1770, he found the eastern coast of Australia, but Australia as a continent had been discovered by the Portuguese about two hundred years before Cook. Formal discoveries of Australia were made by the Dutch in the early 1600s.
It is a common misconception that Captain Cook discovered Australia. He did not. The Australian continent had been populated by Aborigines for thousands of years, and visited by numerous Asian traders and, later, explorers since the first known European visitor in 1616. Captain James Cook was the first European to sight and chart the eastern coast of Australia, which he did between April and August 1770.