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When did James Cook discover the coastline of new zealand Australia and New Guinea?
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∙ 15y ago
- From October 1769 to February 1770, James Cook circumnavigated and charted New Zealand. This was his first visit to the islands.
- He visited New Zealand again on his second journey, between February and May of 1773, returning again in November of that year, having explored the Pacific Islands.
- He was back in New Zealand for October and November of 1774.
- Cook returned to New Zealand in December 1776 to January of 1777.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoContrary to popular opinion, James Cook (who was not a Captain at this stage, but a Lieutenant) was not the first to find New Zealand. Abel Tasman discovered it in 1642.
However, James Cook sighted the islands in October 1769, which is when he commenced his circumnavigation of New Zealand.
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∙ 15y agoJames Cook did not discover NewZealand, Australia or New Guinea. He charted the coast of New Zealand in 1769 and he charted the eastern coast of Australia in 1770. New Guinea had been thoroughly mapped, although incorrectly in some place, before European explorers started mapping the Australian coastline, and Cook had very little to do with the New Guinea islands.
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∙ 12y agoCaptain Cook first sighted New Zealand in October 1769, but the islands had already been discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642.
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∙ 11y agoJames Cook circumnavigated and charted (mapped) the main islands of New Zealand in 1769-70.
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∙ 13y agoYes. James Cook was the first known European explorer to circumnavigate and chart (map) the main islands of New Zealand.
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∙ 7y ago1770; at that stage he was Lieutenant Cook.
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∙ 13y agoJames Cook mapped New Zealand in 1769.
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The country you are probably talking about is New Zealand.
