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Did convicts come with Captain Cook?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No. Lieutenant James Cook, who was not yet a captain when he first charted the east coast of Australia, was on a mission of both exploration and scientific observation. The convicts arrived in Australia eighteen years after Cook sighted the east coast.

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