James Cook

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Yes and no. Cook was instructed to search for the great southern continent. He found the east coast of Australia, although the western half of the continent had already been found, but the continent was not the huge land mass he was expecting to find.

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Cook was hired in 1766 by the Royal Geographic Society who sponsored Cook's first expedition to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. This journey was co-sponsored by the British Admiralty.

Cook's other voyages were also planned as scientific explorations and were commissioned and sponsored by George III of England and the Admiralty.

James Cook did not do bad things. He was a Captain who followed his orders and took good care of his crew:)

None. Captain Cook did not carry convicts. His was a mission of exploration and discovery. Cook was not part of the First Fleet of convicts to Australia. Cook's only part in the passage of convicts was to recommend Botany Bay as a suitable site for a penal colony, but he died nine years before the First Fleet arrived.

Captain James Cook discovered Kiritimati, or Christmas Island, on Christmas Eve 1777. It is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati. It is quite different to the territory of Christmas Island, off Australia's northwestern coast.

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After arriving at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillips decided it was unsuitable for settlement because of the following: * a lack of fresh water * the timber was unsuitable for building * the soil was of poor quality * there was no safe, deep harbour Phillip then moved the First Fleet north to Port Jackson, where they arrived on 26 January 1788.

No. Captain Cook was the first European to sight the eastern coast of Australia in 1770, and it was on his recommendation that the continent was colonised.

However, Cook did not accompany the First Fleet as he was killed by Hawaiian natives in 1779, nine years prior to the First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove.

• The Polynesian atolls knowns as the Cook Islands are named after Captain James Cook.
• Cooktown, in northern Queensland, is named after Cook. It was where Cook and his crew spent two months repairing his ship, the Endeavour, after it ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
• James Cook University, in Townsville (Queensland) is also named after Cook.
• There are several small, uninhabited islands dotted around Australia's coastline, each called "Cook Island".
• Cook Strait lies between the North and South islands of New Zealand.
• New Zealand's highest mountain was named Mt Cook by the Europeans after James Cook. It is now Aoraki/Mt Cook, taking on its former Maori name as well.

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Captain Cook did not actually explore Antarctica. However, he became the first known European to cross the Antarctic Circle when he was sent again to discover if another great land lay east of Australia, in 1772-3. Pack ice and the solid freezing of the ship's sails prevented further exploration of the region.

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Captain Cooks father was a Scottish farm labourer, while his mother stayed at home and did what every other wife did back then. She raised her children, tended to the affairs of the house, cooked, cleaned and did anything else there was to keep her family happy.

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James Cook commanded three ships, the HMS Bark Endeavour,the Resolution and the Adventure but it is unknown whether Cook had a favourite out of his ships.

James Cook explored Alta, California. He was looking for the northwest passage around America. He also made landfall in Kauai, Hawaii and in Oregon.

Captain James Cook was the first European to both circumnavigate New Zealand and chart the eastern coast of Australia.

Tasmania and New Zealand had been visited but not circumnavigated by Dutch captain Abel Jansen Tasman in 1544. His charts exist today.

The east coast of Australia was charted earlier in 1523-4 by an expedition of three ships under command of Portuguese captain Mendonca from the Portuguese colony of Malacca. The mahogany ship which was seen in the 19th Century in the sandhills near Warrnambool in the west coast of Victoria may well be one of his caravels, and it is located at the western extent of the map.

His charts were lost when a tidal wave immersed the Casa da India in Lisbon in the 18th Century, however stolen copies were incorporated in the maps of the Dieppe mapmakers in the 1530s-1560s. These maps are extant today. One was given to Henry VIII as a wedding present by Anne of Cleves.

There is some slender evidence of Portuguese contact with New Zealand (in the Ruapuke wreck, the Tamil bell, the Wellington helmet and the Admiralty annotation of Cook Strait as Gulf of the Portuguese) however this remains speculative and there are no contemporary charts to support it, unless the attribution of the strangel-projecting Cape Fremose in the Dieppe Charts is taken as being New Zealand.

James Cook (not yet a captain at this stage) was sent to observe the transit of Venus across the sun from the vantage point of Tahiti.

The transit of Venus occurs when the planet Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, and its unlit side is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus occur in pairs, eight years apart, approximately once every 120 years.

Cook's ship, the 'Endeavour', departed England in August 1768, and arrived in Tahiti in time for his crew and scientists to set up their instrumentation necessary to observe and report on the transit, which occurred on 3 June 1769.