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James Cook's first voyage was to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from the vantage point of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean.

After this, whilst still on this mission, Cook had orders to head south and west and secretly search for the unknown Great Southern Continent, or Terra Australis Incognitabefore other countries, especially France, reached it first.

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