Yes, and he wasn't too happy about it when he did.
You can find it on Wikipedia, or go to google and search James Cook image.
No. James Cook was unsuccessful in finding a northwest passage.
Yes, many types of shrimp live on the great barrier reef.
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James cook was trying to find a vantage point of Venus from Tahiti and claim it for Britain
Reef, e.g Great Barrier REEF or in an ocean
That was Captain James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific Ocean.
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Yes, he did.
He didn't. James Cook did not find the great southern continent that was believed to exist. He found the east coast of Australia, a continent that was purported to have been discovered by the Portuguese in the 1500s and officially recorded by the Dutch in the 1600s, but this was not the same as the "great southern land", as such a landmass never existed.